Word: valley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WALK THROUGH THE VALLEY (281 pp.) -Borden Deal-Scribner...
...Mississippi-born short story writer, belongs to the white-mule team. Readers who can digest a sort of homily-grits style and who have a strong head for Southern discomfort will find that in his first novel the corn has not been squeezed in vain. Walk Through the Valley is a solid book...
...bottom lands. Virtue is represented by Fate Laird, who comes onstage with a roll of factory-wage dollar bills pinned to his work shirt. He has a vision of the good life, where he plows a straight furrow in bare feet, and feels the good black soil of the valley squinch between his toes. It is Faulkner country, but there is a difference between Deal's Tuxahatchie and Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha. In Faulkner's unprincipled principality, it is the proletarian Snopses who slither to power over the aristocratic Sartorises. In Tuxahatchie County the red-soil, rednecked goodness...
Mountain High, Valley Low (Helen Merrill; Mercury). A vaguely Oriental-sounding ditty that exudes a melancholy charm and makes little attempt to make sense, e.g., "If you need me, I will be near by; mountain high, valley...
Born. To Earl Warren Jr.. 26, second son of U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren anc assistant farm advisor of California's Alameda County, and Cleo Patricia Kent Warren, 26: their second child, first son; in Castro Valley, Calif. Name: Earl Warren III. Weight...