Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...face of Comptroller Joseph D. McGoldrick of big, expensive New York City last fortnight when his boast of a $325,000,000 saving turned out, due to an error in adding, to be $200,000,000 too big (TIME, Jan. 23), Redder still was the face of Governor George D. Aiken of small, thrifty Vermont last week when, after discovery of an error by his finance commission, a surplus of $653,000 for 1941, which he had happily forecast in his budget message, became a deficit...
This story reverses that of the convict-the doctor, too, is trying to erect barriers against nature-and the sick, squalid, miserable sequence of events he goes through contrasts with the nightmarish but still exhilarating adventures of the convict. It does not come off: the doctor and his mistress are not credible characters, the prose is turgid and confusing. But not even careless writing can weaken the cumulative effect of Faulkner's imaginative fertility, the boldness and originality of his themes...
Ghost Town. Jefferson is saturated with the memory of old feuds and old sins. In eight of his books Faulkner has traced its history through the stories of its once-great families whose descendants still hold on, whose legends still remain. Violent, formless, the books are packed with scenes of murder, suicide, insanity, horror, give as unsparing a picture of social decay as any U. S. novelist has drawn...
...services to the School by long years of devotion to its interests. By his method of instruction, noble character and ever-friendly encouragement, he was an inspiration to his students to a remarkable degree, and, though half a century and more has passed since then, yet his memory is still treasured in a affection by those once members of his classes who still survive...
...Note: Harvard's proposed marriage course, which was widely petitioned for recently, must still be termed strictly tentative. Nevertheless, Harvard can ill afford to overlook the opportunities presented by domestically inclined North Carolinians, especially when the prospectus for the Conference proclaims: "The program of this conference, as was true of those preceding, is made up of co-laborers in the field of marriage...