Word: sartorises
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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The Toy Wife (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) makes it clear that, having twice won the Cinema Academy's prize for acting, Luise Rainer has no intention of resting on her laurels. Eyes brimming, lips twitching and little voice choked with tears,, she goes all out for a third award, this...
The bulk of the story centers about the character of Granny Sartoris. She embodies the spirit of "The Unvanquished" older generation. Although a woman, she is responsible for the wellbeing of her community by some clever if shady dealings with Yankee officers. She manages to keep her own plantation and...
Last week a collection of characteristic Faulkner short stories brought his scattered characters a little closer together. A lively book in its own right, made up of seven tales of the Civil War and Reconstruction, The Unvanquished is also interesting for the light it throws on obscure episodes and characters...
Between its lines readers get a clear picture of the moral and cultural changes in the South in the ten years that the book covers, the questioning of old customs by little Confederates like Bayard, the persistence of old Southern conventions in situations that make them absurd. Thus, although Cousin...