Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Duryea) who set out to fleece a pretty, not very bright war widow (Joan Caulfield). Their plot is to persuade the lady to finance a youth center as a war memorial to her hero-husband-or rather, as a paid-up charity benefit for themselves. Their dastardly scheme is clicking along like the southbound express when it develops a hotbox. Payne is far too successful as a lady-killer. He has a hard time convincing the widow that he is not part of the memorial package he is trying to sell, and he cannot escape the relentless pursuit...
...scheme of Faulkner's work, Intruder in the Dust is a key novel, his one book that offers a sign of hope that the South may yet extricate itself from the swamps of hatred and violence. Though not so structurally daring as The Sound and the Fury, nor so eloquent as Light in August, nor so sensational as Sanctuary, Faulkner's latest book is a better told and more firmly bound story than any of these...
...Self-Possessed. Two main characters dominate the novel. One is Charles Mallison, a 16-year-old boy who, in the scheme of the book, represents innocence and freshness, the potentiality of Southern white manhood unspoiled by ancient hatreds. Counterposed to Charles is Lucas Beauchamp, an old Negro farmer with some white blood in his veins, who lives in solitary dignity on a patch of land bequeathed by a white ancestor. Lucas Beauchamp is one of the most magnificent and majestic characters in all American fiction. "Solitary, kinless and intractable, apparently not only without friends even in his own race...
...that time Laboraties Director Stanley S. Stevens remarked: "I am not at all anxious to move." Speculation grew during the course of the spring on the University's attitude toward the Alumni Committee scheme...
...that time Laboraties Director Stanley S. Stevens remarked: "I am not at all anxious to move." Speculation grew during the course of the spring on the University's attitude toward the Alumni Committee scheme. Then in the April 24 interim report to the public Committee Chairman Saltonstall cast official doubt on the plan with the statement that investigation had disclosed "these memorials could not be constructed except for a sum considerably above" the specified $750,000 limit of a memorial fund-raising drive. The latter "ceiling" was alleged to stem from the concurrent existence...