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...county-partly because it cannot let go of the nostalgic, bittersweet memory of the Civil War, partly because Faulkner has arranged it-everything that has happened for nearly a hundred years exists in an instantaneous, perpetual, heroic present. Faulkner does not so much invent as he seems to recollect his action and anecdote from an existing, constantly growing body of lore. The Reivers is no exception. The outrageous doings of Boon and Lucius in 1905 are told, in 1962, by Lucius to his grandson. Mostly, Lucius remembers things as the eleven-year-old boy he was when they happened...
Amongst all other things I've been called, I can't recollect ever having been Anthony [July 28]. I look forward to the day when TIME will know me as, sincerely...
...course, that figure of 250,000 has to be examined before its import can be told. In the first place, it was one of those not-too-reliable sheriff's estimates. ("Well, Sheriff, how many people do you think we've got here?" "Wall, I don't rightly recollect ever seeing so many before, but it must be at least 50,000.") In the press bus during the motorcade's progress, Boston newsmen made guesses ranging from 100,000 to 200,000, but the final figure, arrived at by two police officials, was 250,000. "The important thing is that...
...Summer School has had a history like Topsy. It was "nevah borned, it jest grewed." No one truly knows the birth date, no early records exist, and even the memory of first director failed in trying to recollect the first few summers of class instruction...
...Administration's labor bill. Reason: Arizona's open-shop advocate, Barry Goldwater, because of his seniority on the Labor Committee, will be the G.O.P.'s ranking Senate spokesman. Moderate Republicans fear that their program will get an automatic setback under Goldwater's wing; most recollect powerfully his fondness for the right-to-work laws that lost in five out of six states last fall and carried many a Republican down with them.† If Goldwater, who won easily in Arizona, right-to-work and all, takes an uncompromising stand during the labor bill debates, liberal Republicans...