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...wrote: " 'Further beyond there would be Indianapolis, Indiana where Booth Tarkington lived. He had the wrong dope, that fellow.' . . . 'Nobody had any damn business to write about it [war], though, that didn't at least know about it from hearsay. Like this American writer Willa Cather who wrote a book about the war where all the last part of it was taken from the action in the Birth of a Nation.' " The Torrents of Spring also informs the public of the weaknesses and strengths of Sherwood Anderson...
Archbishop John B. Lamy (one of the Indians' best friends, whom Willa Cather portrayed in Death Comes for the Archbishop) brought death to the art of santos-making. The Archbishop decreed, when he arrived at Santa Fe in 1851, that the barbaric santos be destroyed, and replaced by conventional images and chromes imported from Lamy's native France. More than a thousand santos-today mostly to be found in southwestern museums-survived the Archbishop...
Like Grazing Sheep. When the first volumes of the Joseph series were published, Novelist Willa Cather brilliantly characterized their "dreamy indefiniteness . . . the story has almost the movement of grazing sheep...
...Over there" (U.S. Catholicism) is now-93 years after the scene Willa Cather has portrayed-a chief Financial support of the Vatican...
...almost as if True Confessions had been caught running installments of a Willa Cather novel: Since daytime radio serials, supposedly adored by "the U.S. housewife," are by common consent the most fatuous of dramas, the discovery of a soap opera that dared to be literate made radio columnists pop-eared...