Tar Heel View on Southern Literature Renaissance
In the South a literary awakening emphasizes writing about common people over old aristocratic tales. North Carolina authors like Faulkner Caldwell and Wolfe are cited, with new Raleigh Greensboro Wake Forest works showing fresh, humorous regional voices.
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William Faulkner
Erskine Caldwell
Paul Green
Bernice Kelly Harris
North Carolina
Thomas Wolfe
America
Ben
Contenders Named For National Book Awards Winners
The judges announce 37 books as leading contenders for the National Book Awards in fiction non fiction and poetry. Winners of the $1 000 prizes will be revealed March 13 at the Hotel Astor New York City with Leo Rosten delivering the awards speech.
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Hotel Astor
New York City
Lewis Gannett
Herbert Gold
Jean Stafford
George P. Elliot
Joseph Heller
William Maxwell
Hortense Calisher
Franny and
Zooey
J. D. Salinger
Joan Williams
America
John Burchard
Albert Bush-Brown
Sanchez
Oscar Lewis
Lewis Mumford
Jane Jacobs
Rene Dubos
John Bunyan
Ola Elizabeth Winslow
Elizabeth Stevenson
Theodore H. White
Virgilia Peterson
James Baldwin
Sinclair Lewis
Marek Scherer
Zeus
Stringfellow Barr
Leonie Adams
William Jay Smith
Mark van Doren
Adam
Ned O’gorman
Abbie Huston Evans
Fortune
John Holmes
The
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Into The Pit The Image By Daniel J Boorstin
Boorstin argues that modern America is filled with artificialities and pseudo events dominated by tourism celebrities and Graphic Revolution trends. He links this to a broader threat of unreality and a loss of genuine heroes, concluding the era requires a skeptical approach though the book remains sharp and provocative.
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Boorstin
Atheneum
America
Castle Dor review blends legend with Cornwall lore
Arthur Quiller-Couch and Daphne du Maurier finish a 19th century Cornwall tale set around Castle Dor ruins. A country physician and a French notary investigate whether the place ties to Tristan and Iseult while parallel tragic figures Linnet and Amyot Trestane echo ancient drama in a spooky, very British supernatural mood.
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Tristan
Iseult
Cornwall
Carfax
M. Ledru
Castle Dor
Linnet
Amyot Trestane
Sir Arthur
Miss du Maurier
Music Notes and Concerts Highlight Local Arts Scene
High Point Senior High School Orchestra under Barry Ruth performs Bach Mozart Bartok Vaughan Williams Sibelius and Rogers Hammerstein at 3 p m in the school auditorium. The Community Concerts present the Chicago Opera Ballet at High Point College Memorial Auditorium with Sonia Arora and Kenneth Johnson. Sophia Steffan of New York Opera Co returns to New York after a four month tour and eyes the King David oratorio at Town Hall. Nadia Boulanger conducts the New York Philharmonic as a guest at 75, a noted teacher influencing Copland Thomson and Gershwin. Z Melnikov.
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High Point
Barry Ruth
Bach
Mozart
Bela Bartok
Vaughn-Williams
Sibelius
Roger and Hammerstein
Chicago Opera Ballet
High Point College Memorial Auditorium
Sonia Arora
Kenneth Johnson
Ruth Page
Sophia Steffan
New York Opera Co
New York
Sophia
Town Hall
Nadia Boulanger
New York Philharmonic
America
Paris
Melville Smith
Longy School of Music
Cambridge
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Aaron Copland
Virgil Thomson
George Gershwin
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Nadia
Z. Melnikov
Bookmobile Weekly Ride Schedule by Day
Daily routes list times and stops for the bookmobile across five days Monday through Friday. Locations include College Village Shopping Center Pine Valley Marywood Oak View Bridges Futrelle Ingleside Westover Old Winston Road Parkside Clover Tabor Dayton E Lexington Lindale Locust Gordon Kimrey Cedrow Arlington W Springfield Dane Wynnewood Ragan Thissell Worth Clara Cox Circle Willard Wendell Daniel Brooks Homes.
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Dane
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Ragan
Thissell
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Worth
Clara Cox
Willard
Ellwood
Wendell
Daniel Brooks
Family Spencer’s Mountain by Earl Hamner Jr.
A Blue Ridge tale of the Spencer family led by Clay Spencer and his wife Olivia. Clay-Boy, the eldest son, excels in school and plans graduation while he falls for the mill manager’s daughter during a pivotal summer.
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Blue Ridge
Clay Spencer
Clay-Boy
Clay
Olivia
Inconsistencies Cloud Whodunit Over Phone Booth Details
A crime note questions the shooter description by noting a bullet hole in Blackie Kroger’s left temple and arguing that public phone booths face right when approached. The statement contends Tony Maloney’s account does not fit the scene or movements described.
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Blackie Kroger
Tony Maloney
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