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Upton Sinclair has always been the most unreal character in his own books. He proves this once again in Theirs Be the Guilt, a re-edit of Manassas, which he wrote 56 years ago. Sinclair, then 24, was living in two tents near Princeton, NJ. and doing research from books hauled from the university library in a rented horse and buggy. Years have left the innocent style intact-a genuine fustian or homespun purple-as well as the sentimentality, which would shame Dickens for a cynic. Thus the novel is not only a publishing oddity but it gives a rare...
When he came back, the depression was "going full blast." Edel wrote for Canadian newspapers, did broadcasting work, tutoring, and received a Guggenheim fellowship to edit James' plays. "The army used my talents well in World War II," he added, "Others in my position were sent to Tokyo, but they sent me to France, where I was on the military end of psychological warfare. The Germans would be in pockets, you see, and we would get them to surrender, using loudspeakers and leaflets. It saved a lot of lives...
...Freedom of the press was under attack. El Mundo Writer Juan Luis Martin, an active antiCommunist, was arrested secretly and held for two weeks without charges. Feeling their revolutionary oats. composing-room workers on two Havana papers last week demanded the right to edit stories before setting them in type...
Last fall the HLU sponsored--among other things--a speech by Linus Pauling, raised $300 for Clinton's bombed-out high school, and helped edit the Overseas Review, a digest of excerpts from the liberal press, designed especially for African and Asian students. "Our big topics this year are disarmament, segregation, underdeveloped countries, and the draft," explained president James Bardeen '60. The group has published a 25 page booklet on nuclear policy, and plans a similar work on the U.S. draft laws...
...interest in the 18th century has led him to edit a portable Boswell and Jonson, and to write such amusing and entertaining books as Kings and Desperate Men and Marlborough's Dutchess: a study in worldliness. "I suppose initially it was just that I knew a great deal too little about all these people; and they turned out to be rather fascinating individuals. By the time I wrote the 'study in worldliness' I was already very interested in the period, in the Dutchess and what she represented, and in the Duke, her husband; and not being a military expert...