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...mythical island of Shakespeare's Tempest, the forces of human bestiality, which raged so freely in his earlier tragedies, are held peacefully in check by the benign white magic of Prospero. Now, in Yoknapatawpha County, an equally mythical but heretofore relentlessly dark and bloody portion of Mississippi, a similarly pacific sea change has taken place. Evil still exists there, but it makes no serious headway. No one is raped. No one is lynched. No one is murdered...
...Tempest is not King Lear. The Reivers is not The Sound and the Fury. Critics hot for pessimistic reality may find this autumnal story a retreat into anecdotal escapism. More important, readers who know the body of Faulkner's work will miss, as they have in much of his recent writing, the matchless (even when flawed by excess), surging power of his earlier and darker creations. Occasionally the book falls into something close to pure sentimentality. But what the heart holds, Faulkner once wrote, becomes the truth. Faulkner's heart has held Yoknapatawpha County, its gentleness and comedy...
Italians can brew a political tempest in the tiniest espresso...
...Real Villain. On the evidence so far, the Estes case is not yet a Teapot Dome. But it is certainly far more than what the President and his Agriculture Secretary claimed it to be-merely a teapot tempest. The most important villain in the Estes case is the vast tangle of the farm price-support system, with its accompanying systems of production controls and surplus storage. Price-support programs provide scant help for the neediest farmers; the most bountiful benefits flow to prosperous farmers, who could get along with no Government...
...most important, after the original tempest, Mr. Pusey continued blithely on a collision course: butting stubbornly against faculty and student opposition. Harvard is an oligarchy in theory, ruled by a self-perpetuating group of seven men, but in practice it can only function as a peculiar sort of democracy, in which the President acts either with the assent of those concerned, or with the carefully considered and deeply held belief that he is moving with the wave of the future. In 1958, Mr. Pusey, so deeply rooted in the past that he found it difficult to move even into...