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SUNDAY. JULY IS. 1962
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
American Imagination Given
Expansion by Author Faulkner
(Editor'i notes U n 1 1 d
Press International aikad
Kenan Protestor of English
C. Hugh Holman. of the
Univanity of North Caro
lina. Chapal Hill. N.C.. 1
notad tpacialiit In English
and Amarican literature,
for hit appraisal of the lata
novelist William Faulkner.)
By C. HUGH HOLMAN
Written for
United Press International
William Faulkner is dead,
and we are all the poorer for
his passing. Yet the expansion
which he gave the American
Imagination is a permanent
fact.
We are different and better
people because he took the
materials of the southern
United Slates and fashioned
from them in love, compas
sion, anger and pity a uni
verse of great scope, strong
purpose, and artistic integrity
Between 1829 and 1938,
when Faulkner's genius was
al its flaming peak, he impris
oned his vision of human ex
perience in a group of fine
ahort stories and a scries of
magnificent experimental nov
els, each of which sought and
found a new way of expres
sing his view of the human
dilemma.
Rest in Stories
Almost certainly his perma
nent fame will rest on these
short stories and on "The
Sound and The Fury," "As I
Lay Dying," "Light in Au
gust," and "Absalom, Absa
lom." For they represent a
seven years' achievement of
startling great magnitude.
His later works - notably
the Snopcs Triology and the
re :ent comedy "The Ricvors"
- have adopted the more re
laxed manner and less de
minding form of folk humor,
and showed a diminution of
his imaginative powers. Yet
even they are lesser works
only when set against the
magnificence of his achieve
ment In the early thirties.
The awarding of the Nobel
prize for literature to Faulk
ner in 1949 was a crowning
recognition of his accomplish
ment, and the last decade of
his life has been spent as a
major figure in world litera
ture. Most Impressive
Yet it Is basically appropri
ate that the end of his long
career came In Oxford, Missis
sippi, where it began, a place
whose soil and soul seeded his
best work from its beginning.
For startling though his
command of novellstic tech
niques was, unusual and com.
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WILLIAM FAULKNER
'The Poorer for His Passing'
polling though his use of rhe
toric was, and almost fright
ening though his ability to see
into human motive and emo
tion was, it was In weaving a
great expression of the human
spirit otit of the southern
American experience that he
wrought his most Impressive
accomplishment.
In more than 20 volumes of
short stories, short novels, and
novels, he recorded the south
ern exnerience as It impinged
upon the denizens of his irr.
aginary Yoknapatawpha coun
ty, in Mississippi, and in so
doing presented American lit
erature with a mass of work
of Balzacan scope and power.
Faulkner's Hall-Mark
The south's experience of
defeat, disaster, and lost dig
nity, linked with a sense of
order and human responsibil
ity, were shaped in Faulkner s
hands Into something very
close to a cosmic view of his
tory, a view that sought witn
passionate Intensity for mean
ings that transcend and ex
plain facts and particularities.
This intensity was, together
with his fertile imagination,
Faulkner's hall-mark-one that
expressed itself In technical
experiment, in impassioned
rhetorical language, and in the
sense of being larger than life
which the citizens of his myth
ical county possess.
For the denizens of Yokna
patawpha loom larger than
life, Immense In feeling and
movement. Upon them sweep
howling winds from long sha
dows - across their slate,
(heir region, their nation, and
finally their world. Basically
simple earthy folks of the
south, when the furies pos
sess them, they lend to be
come Gods and demigods. In
a world ashamed of feeling,
inhibited about moral com
mitment, and embarrassed by
rhetoric, Faulkner dared to
present a cosmic dream of his
tory, to picture the glory and
the tragedy of man.
In accepting the Nobel prize
Faulkner expressed his confi
dence that man would not on
ly endure but that he would
prevail. In this sad moment of
the passing of his earthly
body, we look at the living
world which Faulkner's imag
ination created for us and
echo that confidence as a faith
well merited and expressed.
Garner Hamper Gives Trip Impressions
(Editor's notet Initial im
pressions of an American
Field service summer have
been sent to Medford by
Garner Haupert Jr., who is
spending his summer in
Stor Delgum. Norway. Hau
pert, the, ton of Mr. and
Mrs. Garner T. Haupert, 222
Valley View dr., hat com
pleted hit trip acrott the
United States and Atlan
tic to his summer home.
Americans Abroad, AFS,
it tpontoring the Med
ford student's exchange. In
the first letters to his fam
ily, Garner describes hit
journey which began June
10 in Portland.)
By GARNER HAUPERT JR.
I had a ball in Washington,
D.C. Mrs. Edwin Durno met
me at the station and I spent
the day with Dr. Durno in the
Capitol building.
I learned a great deal about
how our country is really run.
I saw Congress convene, heard
debates in both Houses, and
attended a committee meeting.
Mrs. Durno gave me a deluxe
tour of the building. She and
Dr. Durno were certainly
wonderful to me.
New York was a blastl 1
went on the circle island tour,
on the lour of the United
Nations, up 102 stories of the
Empire Stale building, and to
Times Square, of course.
Times Square is really bus
tling and beautiful,
I was impressed with New
York, in fact, it is just fabu
lous. On our last night, the
Oregon delegation walked
down town and had Its final
fling, a pizza dinner.
Although I did not see much
of Montreal, I was impressed
by its modernness and cleanli
ness. I guess that I am really an
"old salt" now after several
days on the high seas. Our
ship is a pretty nice one. I
do not know the usual size of
passenger ships, but I gather
that this one is not too large
In comparison with the newer
luxury vessels. There are
only AFS students aboard. It
is quite clean, and our quar
ters are nice. I am in a dormitory-type
room with nine
other boys.
The boat is German. The
crew Is also German, and only
a few speak English. It is
quite fun to hear them jabber
ing in German. Sometimes it
Is rather hard to get some
thing across to them, though.
The dining rooms are nice,
and the service Is unbeliev-1
able.
The waiters do everything
except chew your food for
you. I think the food is fabu
lous. In fact, I am getting
tired of all the rich food. What
I wouldn't give for a good 'ole
hamburger or a peanut butter
sandwich.
Every night there are
dances going on in the fore
and aft lounges, and there is
usually a movie playing.
Our Norwegian chaperones
are terrific. There is a man
and a girl. They have taught
us so much about Norway. I
have one language class and
two orientation classes each
day. Believe it or not, my
Latin really helps, especially
with grammar and pronuncia
tion. I am eager to get to
Norway.
Today Is my birthday and it
turned out to be swell. At
Watershed Timber
Cuffing Commences
With the melting of the
winter's snow and opening of
roads, timber harvesting has
started on the Ashland Water
shed in the Rogue River Na
tional forest.
The harvesting is part of
the Watershed Management
plan to remove hazard trees
and snags, convert the old dy
ing forest to a vigorous heal
thy stand, remove mistletoe
infection, and increase water
storage, forest officials said.
Harvesting methods vary ac
cording to the type of timber
and the problem that is pres
ent. Some areas will be selec
tively logged, removing un
healthy trees, while other
areas will be small clear cuts
or group selection to remove
focal infections or problems.
Three of the small clear
cuts have been located along
the Ashland Loop rd. near
Bull Gap. The areas were
heavily infected and removal
was necessary to prevent
spread of infection. Careful
attention is given to rehabili
tation by saving of advanced
tree reproduction and supple
mentary planting.
Management is necessary to
insure a healthy ground cover
and maximum supply of wa
ter, officials said.
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dinner all of the "will be"
Norwegians stood up and sang
happy birthday to me. Then
Solve, our man chaperone,
came in with a big birthday
cake, and Kris, the girl chap
erone, with a big kiss. I am
not sure which I enjoyed
most!
I woke up early the morn
ing we were to arrive in Rot
terdam so I could watch the
ship dock. Holland is beauti
ful, just as I had pictured it;
flat, with an occasional roll
ing hill. Everything is green,
there is much water, and
many, many Holstein cattle.
We did not see too many wind
mills. Germany is pretty, also. I
think that it is really prettier
than Holland because it has
more trees, but it isn't as in
dividualistic at Holland.
Everything over here is clean.
In the town it looks like the
streets have been swept every
day. There is no paper in the
gutters. Denmark does not
seem too different from the
United Slates. On the other
side of Copenhagen, however,
it becomes more distinctive.
Arrive In North
Then came something, the
like of which I have never
seen before, Sweden and Nor
way! In these countries I un
doubtedly saw the most beau
tiful scenery that I have ever
seen. Sweden was all green
farms, and J mean green.
There were roiling hills and
gorgeous forests. Norway is
just the same, only more hilly
and rocky. You have never
seen woods like these.
We arrived in Oslo at 1 a.m.
It was not dark. Jon, my
"brother," and Asa Britt, my
"sister," met me at the station.
It is a two-hour drive to Stor
Deglum, the farm. Jon is typ
ically Norwegian, blond and
tall. He is polite and intelli
gent, and has a terrific sense
of humor.
In fact, the whole family
has a terrific sense of humor
Erik, my younger brother, is
bigger than either Jon or I.
He is about 6 feet 2 inches
tall. Asa is really cool. She
is what I would call my "good
buddy."
My mother is really sweet,
and does everything she can
for me. My father is a very
intelligent looking man and
very considerate. I am afraid
he is going to be hard to get
to know because he does not
speak much English, and he is
so busy.
Go For Ride
Jon and I went for a ride on
his scooter yesterday and I
also toured the farm. Dobloug
is a fur breeder, and they
have 5,800 mink and 210 blue
foxes.
Jon and I are quite differ
ent from each other, We share
some of the same interests, but
he isn't interested in sports at
all. Erik and I are very much
alike. We both like to tinker
on engines, and around the
farm he likes hunting and
guns.
Today he and I worked all
day in the fields with the farm
hands. We were moving scads
of rocks from the field where
they will plant barley.
We three boys are rather
like the Cartwright boys on
the television show, "Bonan
za." Jon is the intelligent
Adam, I am the dumb but
faithful Hoss, and Erik is like
Little Joe, always getting into
trouble.
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