Word: mallison
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Neumann and Pawlak were both brilliant, scoring 19 and 25 points respectively. Penn's big men were not so impressive, though 6-10 sophomore Tom Mallison did look good in a 13-point performance. The Quakers, however, completely dominated rebounding...
...Erskine had lived in the same town but had not been back for a spell. Faulkner once remarked to a friend that Yoknapatawpha Lawyer Gavin Stevens " was a good man, but he didn't succeed in living up to his ideal. But his nephew, the boy [Chick Mallison, the young hero of Intruder in the Dust), I think he may grow up to be a better man than his uncle; I think he may succeed as a human being...
Lawyer Gavin Stevens, whom Beauchamp calls on to defend him, is the very picture of the well-meaning but ineffectual white moderate who is reluctant to act on his convictions. Faulkner's belief that the coming generation carries the burden and opportunity of reconciliation is personified in Chick Mallison, the white lad who digs up the evidence that clears Beauchamp. Chick is torn between the tradition that expects him to hate Beauchamp for his prideful independence, and his own grudging, slowly growing respect for Lucas as a man. More explicitly than any other of Faulkner's books, Intruder...
They were wrong. No man was more fiercely loyal to his land and his people. But he wanted and demanded that the South cure itself. In the words of the rebellious Chick Mallison, looking at his relatives with sudden pride: "That was part of it too, that fierce desire that they should be perfect because they were his and he was theirs, that furious intolerance of any one single jot or tittle less than absolute perfection -that furious almost instinctive leap and spring to defend them from anyone anywhere so that he might excoriate them himself without mercy since they...