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...novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms (TIME, Jan. 26, 1948), won loud praise from a few critics, softer praise from some better ones. He is certainly one of the most talented writers lately out of school, but his future would look wider if he could break away from the overripe magnolia and do more work on bread & meat material. His publishers, who have been selecting rather tender jacket photographs with which to publicize him, could help, too, by respecting his youth instead of exploiting...
Creatures of Decay. Faulkner's view of the South has no trace of magnolia-and-old-plantation romanticism; it is tough and realistic, even if sometimes debatable. From novel to novel, weaving backward and forward in patterns of time as intricate as his twining sentences, Faulkner has developed his picture of a society devastated by war-a society that was both honorable and doomed by an inherent guilt. In his view the South was right in insisting on its sovereignty but cursed by the shame of slavery. It had to fight and was doomed to lose...
Nora didn't want to settle for a magnolia & moonlight life on her father's Mississippi plantation. Her discontent spilled over: "Sometimes I wish I were a nigger or an Indian or anything that would keep me from having to be myself, Nora Potter, who goes to parties and pays calls, and sits by quietly, with nothing to say, while Mama does all the talking." Mama really talked incessantly, but now that Nora was up North, she too found her tongue, and ended by talking too much. She told her cousin Austin King, who was already married, that...
...Magnolia's Oceanside Hotel will be the scene of activity of the "35th" which will reach Cambridge in time for a women's lunch at the Boat Club before the Commencement exercises...
...Post Facto. In Seattle, a magnolia tree was finally planted in Magnolia Park...