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...EARL ROVIT tion of the church building and the loss Flashes of insight do not, however, Harcourt, $7.95 of his ministry...
...Faulkner pro- such terms, "Judaeo-Christian" is peris so delicately tactful with some of his bably realized he sounded like Jason haps the most useful of all...
...I bought my farm the same American, Marxist-Leninist, and Ancurious public away...
...Write to the Unified Magazine Program today called the novel's protagonist despite "Mayhew saw that small death as the . we'll send you information on the equal time allotted to the others...
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...Even those who find him work in poetry or short fiction) and what we have lacked, however, and best where he knew himself to be- with a few intelligent good friends and here Blotner helps the most...
...Cloward and Piven But since the book starts at both ends, gives Komisar a chance to develop report that, when told of their rights, two narratives unfold simultaneously properly the views she states with such most of these men were not interested in opposite directions, meaning, in a passion...
...I am 42 years old and I have glo-Irish...
...He chronin his books-want to know where this relations who encouraged him, who icles the dedication, the hard work, the fierce creative spirit came from, what gave him books, and who endured his frustration of Faulkner's great creative it touched and what touched it...
...SAFE RETURN, 156 step children, my own child...
...payment for only sold copies, about the simple billing formher cruel...
...Mayhew sees the two events, velopes so they can pay when they her to think of little Mason...
...who attended a await the very large audience this illustrations, copious notes, and an in- reasonably tough RAF ground school wonderful book deserves...
...Blotner uses much way...
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...Commonweal: 411 These are Mayhew's reflections on clan's fortunes in Mississippi in the from published reminiscences by his August 12th, but with the emblemati- early nineteenth century, to the death two brothers and his townsmen and cally significant events of that day ar- of the great-grandson who changed the from contemporary scholarship...
...Among his associates in the evidence makes it clear that Faulkner Our immediate curiosity should be literary marketplace-including pub- was primarily a novelist, not a writer satisfied with the long biography by lishers, magazine editors, agents, re- of short stories, and that the matter of Professor Joseph Blotner, who put him- viewers, readers and motion-picture ex- Yoknapatawpha County sprang almost self up for authorized biographer and ecutives-he was not always so fortu- full-blown into Faulkner's imagination labored a dozen years to produce an nate, though he was not without loyal at the very beginning of its exploration...
...Finally, we require improved seeks to blur its identity as fiction by Similarly, Komisar argues that Theo- perception of what has prevented al- actively involving the reader in the dore Roosevelt's heralded 1909 Con- liances between all those on govern- novelistic process, making him a charference on Dependent Children was ment assistance...
...the coninformants that we may not have as Compson in The Sound and the Fury, flicts associated with it have been the full and candid a portrait as is possible...
...For pletion, to an end where hope is re- twentieth century fiction...
...tory, capable of the same hostility as cent of the work force has jobs that These particulars of design ally seventeenth-century Plymouth, which pay below the Department of Labor Crossings with much of the most amrequired ship captains to return indi- classification of a decent standard of bitious contemporary fiction, which gent passengers to their place of origin...
...the a fair job, and we should be grateful...
...silver plate...
...Timesaving, "inside" summary of religious and sotic references to a friend of Faulkner's colorful cursing-was in part a facet cial news . . . a rich source of ideas for named Meta Rebner...
...As with the early of his artistry...
...No risk life, there will be corrections and furth- ruthlessness, claiming the "Ode on a offer: You may cancel on receipt of invoice...
...with the chance he had...
...artist, a sincere one and of the first and foreshadowed work to come...
...Blotner reveals matter right...
...Thinking of little Mason, fellow parishioners...
...In splendently original...
...Each of four major completing the tragic pattern of ninemany historical questions about wel- characters has a chance to describe teenth-century America...
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...death put paid to all that, leaving May- flame in an airless void...
...what harmless poses when he used the way period (to 1941), the appalling Hollyit loved and What loved it...
...for her coarse and shallow ence is intolerable proof of their com- one of the priests about the Unified lover, whom she represents in her placency and cupidity...
...It is a goes to 1935 when William Faulkner's who helped a young and poetical Faulkmatter of deliberate ambiguity whether youngest brother, Dean, was killed barn- ner, once claimed he had tried to teach this possibility is realized, for its com- storming in an airplane William had Faulkner to punctuate, a statement that pletion depends both on Mayhew's per- given him (not long after Faulkner had supported the mistaken view of Faulkceptions of it and-as we are reminded written his novel of doomed barnstorm- ner as an untutored provincial...
...But we genius (not borne out by his earliest lication of his first novel in 1926, are want more...
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...reductive categorization...
...We need way, that there are really two books flashes of insight and bitterness...
...Commonweal: 413...
...tion with dissolution, and the second, sees them take the payment enIt didn't do-it had never done-for a family...
...Mayhew does not judge how can you have intelligent for her unresponsive, inarticulate son others, but to the townspeople his pres- discussion...
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...We a better understanding of why in this here, and emphasizing, in each reader's see the American West not as a haven century the Left has continually argued irreversible choice of which one to for the poor, but, as shown by an for improved welfare in charity terms read, the relentless consequences of 1809 Michigan law penalizing anyone and by-passed the question of minimum choice, and even of belief in choice, for bringing a pauper into the Terri- wages...
...to discuss various aspects of their Faith...
...and, para- old-fashioned, ironically, Mayhew has top Catholic Magazines-a wide range of thought and approachdoxically, for Mayhew because he is always been adored by the younger men on a no-risk basis...
...In inner cities today 60 per- within the novel itself...
...Twelve words times through his generosity and sense thor of the twentieth century...
...inept brother and his wife and two that is probably all right...
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...He still man- Classified sometimes, to be sure, through his own aged to write more good books and ineptitude in business matters and some- stories than any English-speaking au- RATES: 50c a word, one time...
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...guages classical and modern, he wrote blighted whatever it touched...
...the books...
...toric injustice, and commitment that family biography for the publisher As Blotner says, it is an exaggera- questions itself find a place...
...monthly in advance of honor-Faulkner reveals himself in Ironically, these books and stories are for more than three times...
...Joseph BlotAmnesty sons, another brother's widow and ner worked hard and long...
...Far from being Magazine Program which offers 15 imagination as a swine...
...gives birth to a baby girl...
...The alliance con- Jesus and the good works and the sal- and their Faith...
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...The Reivers [19621, which lawyer, duelist, novelist, Civil War hero little that a person seriously interested some have erroneously called the "Goldand railroad builder who founded the in Faulkner could not have learned en Book" which Faulkner said he might 26 July 1974: 412 write at the end of his career, was out- only thing I ever got for nothing, 090 000 000 lined to an editor as early as 1940...
...Among which still issues Faulkner's books, he tion, but not by much...
...He summarizes their plots duti- Attitudes tivity in Hollywood: fully, and at too great length...
...who read and retained an Faulkner: A Biography which most concerns us does not con- enormous amount of fiction and poetry JOSEPH BLOTNER stitute exactly a long and happy life...
...herited my father's debts and his brought him...
...er revelations about Faulkner in years Grecian Urn" was worth any number Your first issue is waiting...
...This was just one of the Though not so arrantly libidinous as They would indict him for refusing adult education sessions going on Molly Bloom, Elizabeth Enfield, May- to change with the times and being out in her parish...
...The book can be Mason, the central fact of the novel, a 1974 we need a history-especially one begun, literally, from either end, al- fact given archetypal resonance by the intended for popular consumption- lowing the reader to experience the magnitude of the loss it has entailed that does more...
...It was almost to study this period, has announced his These words would have satisfied never easy, given the talent he knew long-awaited biography, now from William Faulkner as a substitute for he possessed and what he wanted to do Farrar, Straus & Giroux, for 1975 or the biography he repeatedly claimed he with it...
...Faulkner's family background and form that interested him for each novel In two volumes he brings us from old apprenticeship have been available be- and to work until he got the form and Colonel W. C. Falkner, the ill-fated fore, though piecemeal...
...She contacted the Program, learned not reach out to Elizabeth and make inhumanity to man, and life's inhu- about the magazines being offered, her his...
...Blue saw red...
...but, writing an authorized before I ever come to my own...
...COMMONWEAL, 232 his letters, as in the following passage partially absent from Blotner's bio- Madison Ave., New York, N.Y...
...He he dealt manfully and imaginatively Dame, who began earlier than Blotner was the best of his time...
...in the end, child, a wife of my own and two he was not overwhelmed by the material AMNESTY BRACELET with war resister's name...
...He said they so much better, nobler, a man than among his parishioners, those who would like to have this program but everyone seemed so busythe lover, she knows, or than anyone fought in the Civil War or grew up who would take care of it...
...and on it Mayhew and make a book...
...His life and his art were continuities of which it speaks have to him, I suspect, nor quoted fully from always running together, as is often the the ones he has used...
...he put it all together, deal- Vietnamese Prisoners dependents, white and black with- ing with a variety of opinionated people HELP THE MALTREATED political prisoners of the out inheriting yet from anyone one without offending anyone, and he got Saigon regime...
...Most importantly, Komi- to $77.3 billion, in the form of tax enduring rhythms of literature, and of sar does not lose perspective as she breaks on mortgages and capital gains myth, that resist ultimate isolation and gets close to the present...
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...It wasn't until the placed her grief over Mason's death is all a lie...
...The war storm had program: America, Catholic Disessed great scholarly and creative coursed up from the South and the gest, Commonweal, Critic, Family promise...
...But, as again of the novel's simultaneous nar- ers, Pylon...
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...It would be a misfare than an indication that the gov- now totals $22.4 billion or two per- take, however, to insist too strongly on ernment, to quote from the official cent of the national income, not been the experimental, post-modernist nature statement of the Conference, still be- able to improve their position through of Crossings, for not only does it delieved support for such children should more quid pro quo dealing with those velop a complex historical theme, but come "from private charity, not from receiving government support, now up beneath its glittering surface are the the public...
...if everyone isn't up on the latest views...
...He was favored, while he Detailed accounts of Faulkner's proown words about himself, and they are searched, with a strong belief in his own fessional years, beginning with the pubaccurate beyond any doubt...
...To be specific, we her, so the act of reading Crossings prominence in Crossings that the death 26 July 1974: 410 of Leopold Bloom's little son Rudy has hew only with certain abstract modes in James Joyce's Ulysses: both deaths of thought and expression and an in- MRS...
...They I bought without help from anyone carry us behind the books and behind the house I live in and all the fur- seem to need such terms as Afrothe masks set to keep critics and a niture...
...branded, nor are children sold by the need to know more about why so many becomes a process of making judgdozen to manufacturers, yet poverty working poor have come to accept the ments and then balancing, modifying, is still looked on by many as a per- stigma of welfare to the point where and correcting them as new reports sonal failure, and dependence on gov- they will not even collect wage supple- come in from elsewhere, reports that ernment welfare is enough to cancel ments they are entitled to...
...Indeed, this need is events of a single day from either of for the family and, symbolically, by its made all the more urgent because so two directions...
...all social and familial bonds, and in and pattern, the shaping of a mass into How about you...
...even-toned, detailed, generally accurate and helpful people in each category...
...to men like Daniel Moynihan and Mi- Until we get a serious perspective on August 12, 1886, is far from a ranchael Harrington, who urged support these questions, we are bound to get dom day in the life of Mayhew Enfield, of President Nixon's Family Assistance incomplete histories of welfare-some- a Connecticut minister, and his family: Plan because of the precedent it es- thing better than a chronicle but short on it, his young daughter-in-law Clovis tablished, Komisar presents F. A. P. of a truly analytical account...
...as the inevitable, and only, satisfac- in discussion groups really speak Painfully aware of the fragility of tions of the human craving for design out about the various sides of an issue...
...Faulkner was not quick to find '76...
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...Regrettably, plements in New York City actually of what one has been led to believe...
...Mason's death fare are capable of affecting current these events as they appear to him or has the same actual and metaphoric welfare strategy...
...He did prisoners and their families, medical treatment for victims of torture, etc...
...Behind these events, and insufficient, that it is prejudiced against The surface of Earl Rovit's third twenty-one years before them, stands women and blacks, that the welfare novel, Crossings, is intricate and re- the death of Mayhew's first-born son workers themselves are uncaring...
...wife and parent from remaining child, refurbishing of his church, for the Mrs...
...it only waited for Faulkner to find the chronicle of Faulkner's years and hours...
...Blue sat in the moderator and both initiate the father's quest for elders to accuse him of a highbrowism chair, presiding over a group of regenerative union with a second or that their small community would be adult Catholics who were together surrogate son...
...Want to bring small ways (at least) more heroic than a structure whose end denies its be- current Catholic magazines to your Elizabeth, is Mayhew Enfield, safely ginning...
...after the first pair of long pants I Faulkner's letters, most of them used received (cost: $7.50) was the CORRESPONDENCE for the first time, make the great differ- $300.00 O. Henry prize last year...
...BLUE occur long before the main action of tellectual comprehensiveness that make their novels, both rive husband from it easy, when he objects to the proposed SAW RED...
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...The man who advised sermons, programs, classes...
...Most of all Elizabeth despises manity to man, and desire a moral about the 20% discount, about the herself and the cruel life that has made force that would have it otherwise...
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...Driven by his genius, tortured with money, even when he could least afa propensity to heavy drink, harried ford to yield any of either, whenever constantly by money and family prob- friends or family needed him, including lems, and occasionally victimized- any number of old ladies...
...living...
...who took college courses Beginning with Faulkner's birth in at the University of Mississippi after 1897, the interval of almost 65 years the war...
...Martin E. Marty...
...can't be all that bad if I'm able to puts it, and what they have is a man Well Mrs...
...The first threatened a na- Now she sees parishioners buying the magazines from the rack .. . to a new, pitifully small, pine coffin...
...In any event, active par- 1929 family chronicle novel, Sartoris- was a perennial honor student (who ticipation in the conclusion(s) of and it closes with William Faulknei s completed the 11th, not the 7th grade Crossings is but one of many joys that funeral in July 1962...
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...In the late are equally true but equally prejudiced out anyone's right to dignity and the 1960s only 15,000 of the 150,000 and thus never quite a confirmation, kind of decent living conditions the working people eligible for wage sup- though rarely an explicit contradiction, country can easily afford...
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...Other misconceptions Random House, $25 As he often said of his books, William are corrected, though nothing too reFaulkner could probably do it better if markable emerges, and this part of TOM McHANEY he had it to do over again, but he Faulkner's life may be rewritten in knew there were no second chances and more detail...
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...Full picture shows---of my mother, an of daily affairs...
...on it Mayas one more welfare hoax, a sophisti- hew himself is confronted by the elders cated embodiment of the President's of his congregation, who make him assertion that "any work is preferable Crossings choose between a vulgar modernizato welfare...
...The out his days and made his books...
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...Catholic, Way...
...Doubtless there case with writers...
...all, began to become the sole, prin- ner who turned so much of his physical Newsweekly cipal and partial support-food, and emotional life into art-is the chief shelter, heat, clothes, medicine, missing ingredient in the biography...
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...now listens to them cannot avoid thinking of him...
...The International Committee, Minnesota Council, of Churches, suplies food to these inch of land or one stick of furni- the job finished and published...
...nor do they compen- Clovis' husband Prentiss may finally sate for Komisar's reliance on the fa- MARK TAYLOR bridge the gulf that has so long sepamiliar litany against welfare: that it is rated them...
...he shows CONSERVE MENTAL ENERGYI Try ADVENTURES Beginning at the age of thirty I, an how Faulkner borrowed from himself IN ATTITUDES, 9056 La Riviera Dr., Sacramento, Calif...
...But class, who should be free even of he provides very few insights into the Workshop his own economic responsibilities work as imaginative literature...
...How can you keep informed ing and contempt for those about her: Civil War...
...written during the last Babylonian Cap- graphy...
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...Still, rives the possibility of a larger pattern, spelling of the name and immeasurably Blotner sets straight parts of the record to which the War and Mason's death enlarged its fame beyond Mississippi's and provides detailed accounts of many are subsumed, moving to its own com- borders by also changing the face of episodes heretofore only sketched...
...notes towards his great projected work lamentation...
...Little Mason's small The Natural History of the Intellect white coffin was the high-water mark WRITE: Unified Magazine Program, 400 Sette Drive, Paramus...
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...Ever since little Mason, The Civil War is Mason's death figured out that she need only dethat muted spasm-to remind her that writ large...
...Volume Two begins with Blotner shows, in a time when gramratives-on our perceptions of his per- Dean's funeral-William put on his mar, syntax and punctuation were ceptions of it, whether or not they are brother's monument words he had used taught seriously and thoroughly in qualified by what we have or have not for young John Sartoris' grave in his secondary schools, William Faulkner then read...
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...we want he dressed or talked about himself to wood years which overlap (1933-1945), to know how William Faulkner lived display the uniqueness later affirmed by the years of recovery and fame...
...Continued Iron, page 395) ence in what Blotner can show...
...whom he had created more than a most unforgivable of our age, and the He has not used all the letters available decade earlier...
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...Mason's in the low earth-the last gasp of Jersey 07652...
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...She decided then and there that discusmake two wonderful men completely who would be the Christian conscience sion did not make much sense if happy," she is now consumed by loath- of a community that grew fat on the people didn't have materials to read...
...indeed, Mason died in the vote about two hours a week to this project, that's all, and sent in an she, a young unbroken girl, had car- war's last year, and Mayhew's older order to start her parish off with 8 ried her babe for nine months in order brother, also named Mason, was killed of the 15 available magazines...
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