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WILLIAM FAULKNER (MGM) reads selections from his novels-The Sound and the Fury, Light in August-in a voice as dry and fragile as a wisteria pod. The interest here is not in the pitch of line or phrase but in the incantatory plod of the Faulknerian periods, straddling page after page in the exhortation of meanings more felt than heard...
...designed by nature to plod the surface of the earth and occasionally to flounder in the uppermost layer of its waterways, gets into trouble when he tries to go either up or down. The medical hazards of high-altitude flying have long been studied. Until recently, the corresponding dangers of the deep have been the private preserve of Navy "diving doctors" working with submariners and deep-sea divers. Now, with the craze for skindiving, with Aqua-Lungs, snorkels and similar gadgets sold in the corner store, civilian doctors are daily confronted with unfamiliar problems. In the New England Journal...
...nerves of his wife and friends, who fear that he will flub during a performance. All this may be hutzpa, but it works. In fact, he rarely flubs, never falls on his face, despite his hurry. The quality that allows him to do in a breeze what others must plod to accomplish is a never-say-die rationality, a formidable ability to put his life in order and his work in form. He can divide his brain into three or four separate task forces, attack three or four different objectives?prepare a script, study a score, work out a melody...
...tribute to TIME [July 23] for its salute to the National Park system; it was truly refreshing to be reminded of the beauties of our country as we plod through the often depressing news of the world...
...different challenge is presented by Arizona's Colossal Cave. In 1922 four explorers, bearing packs averaging 76 Ibs. apiece, took six days and seven nights to plod through an estimated 39 miles of labyrinth. They ran out of supplies, but did not reach the end of the main passageway. Nor has anyone reached it since...