Word: anderson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Advocate editor once said to a candidate: "You have imitated the Sherwood Anderson stuff, and quite successfully, too. But we won't want that sort of thing. It's too casy to write." In substance this is what Mr. Chase has too easy to write." In substance this is what Mr. Chase has to say about Anderson. This is a critical study of a man who wrote his first novel at forty, leaving the swivel chair of presidency in an Elyria, Ohio, paint factory to build himself a new life of meaning...
Although not an avowed backer in English composition of what may be called the Wendellian Law, Mr. Chase believes that Anderson and Dreiser and all the rest will fifty years hence be as unread as the Congressional Record. Several things are wrong with Anderson, to his mind. He is to obsessed with sex, and sex perversion. "Winesburg, Ohio" was saturated with people, ranging from the philosopher who does not understand his own sexual frustration and so is writing a book to show that all the world is Christ and is suffering on the Cross, to the hotel proprietor's wife...
...mighty Leviathan has been dodging the ice cakes between Weeks and Anderson bridges all this week. Today, however, Coach Brown hopes to take 12 shells out for the initial practice of the year. It is expected that six 150-pound crews will go out, and six class crews. In about three weeks it is expected that three crews will be chosen from the class material. After vacation a first and second University crew will be chosen...
Lured by a blue stretch of open water in front of the Weld Boat Club between the Anderson and the Weeks Bridges yesterday afternoon, the Leviathan, the mightiest craft in the University flotilla, carried a crew of Freshman rowing aspirants onto the Charles...
...thus, in the natural course of events, Cambridge has become more and more the busy American city, as it has lost, conversely, the atmosphere of a quiet academic center. The boosters are in control, and their little signboard at the Anderson Bridge represents the attitude of the city: bold capitals proclaim industrial growth, manufacturing leadership, Kiwanis and Rotarian meetings; and, in almost shame-faced letters below, Cambridge mentions its educational institutions. The calm that surrounded the nineteenth century giants of Cambridge is gone; and the student of the present must piece out an education as best he can amid...