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...contaminated by myth to be considered reliable history. And even the more conservative scholars who accept these accounts as historically plausible agree that most of the famous Christmas legends are unsupported elaborations of the spare, precise biblical reports. In a new volume of reverent debunking called Born in Bethlehem (Helicon; $3.50), Dutch Theologian H. W. van der Vaart Smit borrows the conclusions of modern scriptural scholars to separate Christmas fact from Christmas fancy...
...Sinclair the obvious answer to this sort of thing was to found a Socialist colony, which he did in 1906 in a former private school in New Jersey named Helicon Hall. It was an improvement on the cabin, but troubles persisted. Drunk artists turned up; the press wrote stories about free love. Young Sinclair Lewis quit Yale to work there as a furnace tender for a month and proposed to Upton's blonde secretary (she turned him down). The school building burned down, and the Sinclairs joined another colony in Arden, Del., where one idealist turned up with...
...great lovers! Let us be mad! Let us stride over the hilltops!" Those were the sentiments on which Harry Sinclair Lewis, a doctor's son of New England ancestors, consciously patterned his life. He went to Yale, worked as janitor at Upton Sinclair's Socialist community of Helicon Hall in New Jersey, lived on rice in a California seaside cottage. In 1919, after publishing six conventional novels, all failures, he set out to write what he called the "great American novelhighbrow and realistic...
Silent Amnesty. Rural districts were equally peaceful. The peasants had declared a silent amnesty for many guerrillas who had returned home from the mountains. At Agios Georgios on the slopes of Mt. Helicon, the polling place was the schoolhouse from which guerrillas last year had kidnaped the teacher. An election committee of village elders-all with white mustaches, goatskin jackets and shepherd's crooks-presided over the poll. When an American reporter entered they said in chorus: "All is quiet...
...president when the Italians came and my old woman got a bad heart from fright. I was president when the Germans came to find the British officers we were hiding; and I was president last year when the goat-thieves [guerrillas] came to drag me up to Helicon . . . [He was saved when the Communists fled before an approaching army unit.] Lots of the young ones who were up there are back in the village now. Two of them-Danos and Georgios -were with me in the voting line. But we're glad they've come back...