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Show -83- had advised the students to leave? but to go home in case there was trouble and the police were called. Another was angry at the demonstrators and said he hoped the police had been called. The Professor walked to the department office, where the secretary saad they had received no word except to keep calm? He wondered whether it would be worthwhile to wait for his own class, which didn't meet until late in the afternoon. He walked to the far end of the building where he could get just a glimpse of the $m&&m&2m$g£ikte quad! The area was full of students who seemed from this distance to be milling aimlessly about.' He returned to his office and looked out the window? A crowd was still assembled before the Administration Building. They seemed quiet. The continued shouting seemed to be coming from those farther away. He decided it was his duty, not so much to the University as to his students, to stay. He sat down again at his desk and began to go over the material he expected to teach. It was William Faulkner's novel, The Sound and the Fury? a work that he saw as a study in change from the attitudes of pee-Civil War Southern society to modern mercantilism, with the suggestion that modern man could be saved only by renewal - by a return to innocence. The Professor played in his mind with the idea that the present-day rebellion among the youth was against the very |