Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Socialist Upton Sinclair might be a better novelist if he kept anti-capitalist propaganda out of his books; but probably in that case he would not write at all. Of all U. S. authors, Author Sinclair is doubtless the foremost believer in Art for Man's Sake. Preacher first, novelist second (a bad second), he has founded many a tragic, many a sordid tale on fact, embellished it with idealistic Utopian fantasy, false to human nature. Mountain City, latest of his many novels, is more a sordid than a tragic story, its propaganda negative, implied rather than explicit...
...Author Sinclair tells of the rise to Success of one Jed Rusher, a Western farmer's boy who dreamed of power, worked for nothing else, insinuated himself into a rich man's family, made $50,000,000 before he was 30. Lulu Belle Macy, the rich man's daughter, wanted to know how babies were made, wanted to have one herself to play with. Jed would not tell her how it was done, neither would her mother, so she enquired elsewhere. When she was pregnant Jed married her. It gave him the step up he needed; all went well. Business...
Daniel Monfried Sandomire 2L, S.B. '28, of New York City, is Note Editor. Sandomire was high ranking man among last year's first year students. The newly-appointed Case Editor is Alexander Boyd. Hawes 2L, of Cambridge, who received his A.B. here in 1928. Sinclair Hatch 2L will serve as Legislation and Book Review Editor. Hatch, who comes from Minneapolis, Minnesota, was graduated from Princeton in the class of 1928. In September new members from the present first year class will be taken on the board. The elections are made almost automatically, based on the rankings announced...
...Plutocrat was originally a novel in which Booth Tarkington rather effectually rebutted Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt by describing the world travels of an Omaha porkpacker who, for all his bluster and gaucherie, was admirable rather than asinine. His virtues were particularly apparent by contrast with those of an epicine playwright whom he encountered on the way. In dramatizing the story, Arthur Goodrich has entirely neglected this central theme, has treated all the characters broadly and achieved a completely banal degree of farce. The performance by Charles Douville Coburn, Ivah Wills Coburn and their supporting cast is, at best, foolish...
...conservatives considered a radi cal (all his writings have "social-revolutionary" leanings), he is looked at some what askance by orthodox Reds because his books are not primarily propaganda. Though many of his friends are Communists he is not a member of any party. Unlike such writers as Upton Sinclair, Dos Passos is more of an artist than an agitator. He was one of the artists, writers arrested in Boston in 1927 for protesting publicly against the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti.* Dos Passos has many friends, no intimates. He is the original of "Hugo Bamman" in Critic Edmund Wilson...