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...first classroom appearance, and the shy, drawling visiting lecturer admitted being "terrified." If he could not get a good discussion going, then he would simply be wasting everybody's time. Nobel Prizewinning Novelist William Faulkner (Sanctuary, The Sound and the Fury) need not have worried. Last week, as he began his five-month tenure as the University of Virginia's first visiting "writer in residence," he proved from the start that in his own quiet, philosophic way, he would give his students plenty to talk about...
...WILLIAM FAULKNER Oxford, Miss...
These unsolicited letters, whether they come from a schoolgirl such as Lisa Fitzgerald or a Nobel prizewinner such as William Faulkner, have one quality in common: a nononsense, no-holds-barred sense of deep and outspoken conviction. Late in the year many of our letter writers share another trait: they are reviewing the events of the year and choosing their candidates for TIME'S Man of the Year. One of these this year was Finbarr M. Slattery, who is known as "the divil to argue" in his native village, Asdee (pop. 250) in County Kerry, where the Shannon meets...
AUGUST. Presley sings in Boston and thirty-seven mice stage a mass escape from the psycho labs beneath Mem Hall. Presley receives his draft notice and mass suicides follow. Russia gives Cecil B. DeMille rights to produce a film about the October revolution on location. Hemingway and Faulkner go on a fishing trip in the West Indies, come back with a new book entitled, "Beards, Booze, and Old Time Religion." Report sighting strange figure on raft, nude to waist, brandishing harpoon...
...WILLIAM FAULKNER Oxford, Miss...