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...represented by Radio Announcer Keenan Wynn, who doubts that Providence cares whether the Pirates win or lose. On the side of muscular Christianity are Janet Leigh as the girl who gets Douglas; a pansy-eyed child star named Donna Corcoran as the devout orphan, and Ellen Corby as a nun who knows baseball like a book...
Requiem for a Nun, by William Faulkner. The Nobel Prizewinner returns to the characters of Sanctuary (1931), reports them older, sadder, a little wiser, with an outside chance to save their souls (TIME, Sept...
...offer of marriage. Her suitor was only a factory hand, stubby and stolid, but husbands were not found under every orange tree, so Carmen said yes. The night before the banns were posted, Jose and Concepción told her what they knew about her birth. They repeated the nun's remark about her being "a real marquesita" and the young bride began to embellish her grey life with daydreams about a romantic past...
REQUIEM FOR A NUN (286 pp.]-William Faulkner-Random House...
...claim more roots than rooters in the U.S. One reason: his explosive Southern fables are sometimes hooked to devious verbal fuses that leave the average reader weary or wondering. When he wants to, Faulkner can also be as direct as a bolt of summer lightning. Requiem for a Nun is a tantalizing blend of both Faulkners. It rates a middle pass on a fictional report card starred with such finer achievements...