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...them; they seemed to be lit from within. And sometimes a tree or a mountainside would take on the shape of a bird, a face or a giant eye. Gilles painted Ischia's fishermen, but they were as lonely as his gods, as tortured as his Ophelia and Lear. Whatever his subject, it was thick with melancholy...
...Tempest is not King Lear. The Reivers is not The Sound and the Fury. Critics hot for pessimistic reality may find this autumnal story a retreat into anecdotal escapism. More important, readers who know the body of Faulkner's work will miss, as they have in much of his recent writing, the matchless (even when flawed by excess), surging power of his earlier and darker creations. Occasionally the book falls into something close to pure sentimentality. But what the heart holds, Faulkner once wrote, becomes the truth. Faulkner's heart has held Yoknapatawpha County, its gentleness and comedy...
McCord plans now to devote full time to serious poetry, two projected books Harvard, and a study of sense and sense in Edward Lear...
...results of such mismanagement were most unfortunate: of the $1,150,000 collected in the 1960 Massachusetts drive, $548,241 was spent for overhead. Further damaging evidence occurs in Lear's second article which reproduces the internal revenue form filled out by the Massachusetts Branch. This document, which even baffled a certified public accountant, contains the following figures: cost of operations--$1,368 (when the president's salary alone was $17,500), miscellaneous expenses--$599,752.33, cash on hand--$1,207,269.05 (in an organization which annually begs people for donations...
...Lear's article describes the activities of several other agencies as well and discloses exaggerated campaign claims and a niggardly payment policy on the part of the March of Dimes in addition to outright fraud on the part of the Kenny Foundation...