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...Elmo Howell Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 Mink Snopes and Faulkner s Moral Conclusions Elmo Howell Readers of William Faulkner s three Snopes novels have expressed a general dissatisfaction with the last two, which were written more than thirty years after the idea...

... over a period of thirty years. In Watson s view, amoral Snopesism is summed up in the person of Flem Snopes, and anyone who opposes Flem is necessarily on the side of the angels, including especially Linda Snopes Kohl and Mink Snopes, who plan and execute his murder. Something is to be said for Linda...

...Gilbert Smith Requiem for a Nun: On Stage and Off . By Izard Barbara Hieronymus Clara . Nashville and London : Aurora Publishers , 1970 . Pp. 331 . $8.95 cloth; $3.95 paper. Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 Book Reviews 431 with ascent into heaven. Mink...

..., and anyone who opposes Flem is necessarily on the side of the angels, including especially Linda Snopes Kohl and Mink Snopes, who plan and execute his murder. Something is to be said for Linda and Mink, but to make them champions in the cause of hu­ manity is going beyond Faulkner s intentions. Moreover...

... in the Snopes trilogy. And finally, rhetoric itself can serve to modulate or transform the reader s view of a character. In The Long Sum­ mer the animal-like viciousness of Mink Snopes (suggested by his very name) is linked to his obsessive determination to revenge himself first on Houston and then on Flem...

... mer the animal-like viciousness of Mink Snopes (suggested by his very name) is linked to his obsessive determination to revenge himself first on Houston and then on Flem. In The Mansion the comic horror of these scenes modulates into the vision, still comic but replacing horror with pathos, of his...

... be described as possessed, figures Faulkner s Democratic Rhetoric 537 who in their preoccupations are extreme to the point of madness, like Mink Snopes in revenge, or Armstid in miserly greed. Very often with this kind of character, Faulkner not only reduces the personality to a few capacities, but also...

..., shortly after Dwight Eisenhower had swung into his moral crusade aimed at Democratic scandals involving mink coats and deep freez­ ers. It was dramatically revealed that his vice-presidential running mate had received a secret $18,000 slush fund before joining the Eisenhower team. Nixon promptly...

... chapter, by the philosopher Louis Mink, discusses the relation between narration and cognition: in narrative history, a story generates its own imaginative space, but it must conform as well to other canons, such as the fact that there is only one way in which a set of facts narrated can actually have...

..., by the philosopher Louis Mink, discusses the relation between narration and cognition: in narrative history, a story generates its own imaginative space, but it must conform as well to other canons, such as the fact that there is only one way in which a set of facts narrated can actually have happened. Thus...

... be expected, Mr. Beck makes the strongest case where Faulkner himself is strongest: in commenting on the characters of Flem and Mink, for example, and in discussing Snopes in general. Where Faulkner is weak, Mr. Beck is also less convincing, as in his defense of some of the comedy in The Mansion and his total...

... is strongest: in commenting on the characters of Flem and Mink, for example, and in discussing Snopes in general. Where Faulkner is weak, Mr. Beck is also less convincing, as in his defense of some of the comedy in The Mansion and his total approval of Gavin Stevens, whom he judges to be as successful...

... for my service. The possibility of making money came to the boy when he sent a mink skin the thirty-six miles to Atlanta and received one dollar in return. Ul­ timately, he went on to found the Coca Cola business and to invest a for­ tune in real estate. He gave approximately eight million dollars...

... over Tikamatug. There I saw a little thing sticking in the mud. Had black hair and red beard, And draut the little thing, how it was skeered! ( Mink ; or a little mink called a gopher. From North Carolina.) 3 Four stiff standers, Four long hangers, Two lookers, Two crookers, And the switch-about...

... and ex-con who was married to a svelte former model. Sollazzo and his wife were perfect figures of scandal: she draped in mink and sporting a poodle, he vaguely linked to Frank Costello and other mobsters.16 (Sol­ lazzo also scandalized New York by spending more money on his second wife s poodle than...

... . Boston : Little, Brown . Mink Gwendolyn . 1998 . Welfare's End . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press . Moynihan Daniel Patrick . 1965 . The Negro Family: A Case for National Action . Washington, DC : Government Printing Office . Muehlebach Andrea . 2012 . The Moral...

..., he at the same time is hyperbolized into pure quality. Young Bayard, for instance, be­ comes despair beyond grief; Ratliff, uncanny shrewdness; Aunt Jennie, indomitability, even to the angle of her bonnet; Mink Snopes, blind fury; Eula Varner, voluptous sexuality; and Flem Snopes, in­ vulnerable...

... of a donkey and the varied languages entering them. Study the deep-sea squid and see how he does only what he has to, how the wild ducks of autumn come flying in a shifting overhead scroll, how rats earn a living and survive and pass on their tough germ plasms to children who can live where others die. Mink...

... assumed all this powdery matter had simply floated off the walls and ceiling, further indications of the structure s fragility and age. The door opened, admitting a man wearing a mink fedora and a long black coat. His beard was white and untrimmed, reach­ ing to his chest, and although its wispy...

..., china, glassware, perfume, tuxedos, and even Alexis and Krystle porcelain dolls in Nolan Miller fash­ ions (real mink stoles, real diamond necklaces) retailing for $10,000 apiece.20 Previous programs had licensed commercial products tied in to their narratives, but the Dynasty collection would...