Word: yoknapatawphaed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...times is the common ingredient. Predictably, the writer who has mixed the smoothest cup of brine is The New Yorker's John Cheever. With his oft-repeated visions of suburbia under a lowering sky, the author is obviously following Faulkner's lead by creating a kind of Yoknapatawpha, Conn. The fact that there are no Snopeses and not even very much crab grass in the commuters' heaven adds wry emphasis to Cheever's reiterated question. "Is this all there is?" ask his characters, who have everything. In The Country Husband, the author's answer...
...Money God. Like a singular breed of evil locusts, Flem Snopes and his clan showed up in Mississippi's Yoknapatawpha County at precisely the moment when the old Southern aristocracy had become a pushover for vulgar, illiterate climbers. Flem's god was money, because money was power, and in the end it led even to respectability. To get money, he trampled over the less cunning, blandly jobbed the unsuspecting; he married the casually pregnant daughter of the big man in Frenchman's Bend, and with equal blandness allowed himself to be cuckolded by a banker because...
...Long, Hot Summer (20th Century-Fox) bears only a remote resemblance to the William Faulkner tales on which it is based (The Hamlet, Barn Burning). The Hamlet, in which Author Faulkner aired the moral midden of Yoknapatawpha County in an ecstasy of disgust, is particularly strong stuff, and Producer Jerry Wald clearly had to clean up his subject for the screen. In the process, unfortunately, he converted Faulkner's county into a community almost as corny as Al Capp's Dogpatch, and reduced all the poetry of degradation to the customary commercial serving of fresh...
...TOWN, by William Faulkner. The malignant, unsavory Snopeses taking over Yoknapatawpha County from the noble old families who once controlled it and gave it graciousness. Intricate and convoluted as the book is in plot and in sentence, Faulkner gives it the air of a sly village idiot's barbershop yarn...
...Snopeses live in the world of Yoknapatawpha County amongst the legends and the myths of the past. They are surrounded by stories of man's need to destroy himself and the present so as to have revenge upon and gain unity with the past. They have the ruined plantations lying barren around them, they have sterility, incest, and divided houses...