Word: throughout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although he labored in obscurity throughout his early career, William Faulkner lived to see an academic cottage industry grow up around his books. Since his death, in 1962, the business has boomed into a vast factory, belching out theses, dissertations, books, articles, catalogues of trivia, notes and querulousness. Raw material is naturally at a premium. If a single word that Faulkner wrote and neglected to destroy has not been discovered, some professorial truffle hound will doubtless find and publish...
...that the law of diminishing returns has a loophole. Until now, only some 50 of Faulkner's short stories were available in book form. Editor Joseph Blotner has rounded up 45 more, 14 of them previously unpublished anywhere. The book as a whole rarely reaches the brilliance sustained throughout Faulkner's Collected Stories (1950). No matter. Blotner has salvaged a number of fine stories from back-issue oblivion and, in the process, presented an intriguing portrait of the artist as a commercial traveler...
...pace throughout the 5,000 meter race was erratic, as the leaders took out a fairly quick pace with a split time of 5:15. The second mile led the runners up a winding and rocky trail which Coach Pappy Hunt described as "wet and treacherous" from the rain the night before. The pack slowed its pace here as passing became difficult on the narrow path. During the last mile the tempo picked up as the course began to wind downhill...
...that, if nothing else--but it just hasn't had any punch. Unlike 1975, when corruption generated a lot of political flak, there has been no big issue. Campaign news has slid into the back pages of the newspapers. A real "lets-get-it-over-with" mood has spread throughout the city...
...Berman's British-American Repertory Company (BARC), on the other hand, acts a bit self-conscious throughout the play, and exaggerates the caricaturing native to the script. To be fair, some of the actors in the company restrain themselves, but they only look-incongruous among their mugging colleagues...