Word: dos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interest of larger issues involved, will you permit me to take exception to the extremely partial and uncomplimentary review of "Three Soldiers" by John Dos Passos '16, which appeared in your pages on Saturday last...
What is it that Mr. Dos Passos has endeavored to do in "Three Soldiers", which seems to your reviewer only a regrettable bid for notoriety? For one thing, he has not tried to write a history of the war, nor an exposition of its issues, nor an account of the typical spirit of the American army. He believes the war a just and righteous one; but a picture of it does not require a lot of foot-notes to that effect by Mr. George Creel. Like any artist worthy of the name, Mr. Dos Passos has attempt a portrayal...
...Dos Passos had any of the malignant designs imputed to him, his wrecked figures would have been of a more heroic stature. But he is no progandist, no muck-raker. It is a pity that he cannot yet receive the judgment by standards of literary criticism to which he is entitled, instead of the hasty appraisals of conventional opinion. HAROLD A. LARRABEE, '16, 1G. October...