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...whole and fully human. Some have found Dilsey heroically simple to the point of sentimental caricature of the "black mammy." Faulkner clearly intended her as a celebration of the quality of Negro endurance that survives with dignity in the Deep South. She is also the book's moral norm, against which the reader measures the decline of the Compsons into drunkenness, hypochondria, idiocy, promiscuity and suicide. Through the three decades spanned by the novel, Dilsey Gibson, with her strength, patience and honesty, is the only one who keeps the family together...
...investigators say, the explanation is that these people are "gay, boisterous and unpretentious, simple, warm and very hospitable . . . mutually trusting (there is no crime in Roseto) and mutually supporting." When Rosetans leave home to live in the big cities, their heart-attack death rate goes up to the U.S. norm...
...Rossi got credit for the victory. Lee Sargent pitched the last two inning when Del Rossi was pulled out because he developed a blister on one of his pitching fingers. Coach Norm Shepard is saving the ace southpaw for Wednesday's game against Yale...
...official U.S. entry at Cannes is The World of Henry Orient, due for festival screening this week. It is a genuine Hollywood product and, simultaneously, an exception to the norm: bright, breezy and brimming with fun, it doesn't celebrate sex. It thwarts it. The thwarters are two little girls who develop a crush on Peter Sellers and tumble after him all over town, inadvertently wrecking his sleazy love affairs...
Righthander Andy Luther is scheduled to do the pitching for Harvard. Luther has been the season's biggest find for coach Norm Shepard; after two years out of uniform, he has turned in a 5-0 record