Word: dos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Willa Cather is one of the most excellent, and rather curiously, has been popular. Steven's 'Paul Bunyan" records the yarns of the great legendary character of the American lumber-camps. Theodore Dreiser has written his first novel in several years, "An American Tragedy," in two volumes. J. R. Dos Passos in "Manhattan Transfer," writing in a kaleidoscopic fashion that savours of James Joyce describes the life of New York--or a part of it. Christopher Morley's "Thunder on the Left" is well known and applauded. "The Private Life of Helen of Troy" by John Erskine is an entertaining...
...realism, which creates a more startling illusion than would have been possible within the bounds of the old forms. This technique has not been confined to poetry, for an impressionism which resembles it strikingly, constitutes the chief charm of the works of such writers as Sherwood Anderson or John Dos Passos...
...Significance. What Mr. Dos Passos set out to do was, obviously, to draw a portrait of Manhattan. He has done a good job, an impressive job. The book is fragmentary and disconnected, told in little scenes, shuffled up almost indiscriminately. One may live in Manhattan for years without ever knowing more than two or three of the types he presents (although the people he presents are nearly always more than types?they are individuals), but the fact that a Manhattan dweller may not see his town as Mr. Dos Passos does, merely shows that the writer has done a thorough...
...Author. It was in 1921 that this young Harvard man, John (Roderigo) Dos Passos, first made a splash in the literary puddle with Three Soldiers, a realistic book about the War, a book that made war look too nasty to suit certain parties, although others looked upon it and recognized the ugly face of a monster they had met. Since then Mr. Dos Passos has wandered into poetry (A Pushcart at the Curb) and into essays (Rosinante to the Road Again) as well as continuing in the well-beaten track of the novel...
...similar mind is Philip Bale, who under the title of "The Dramatic Renaissance at Harvard," writes in an optimistic vein on the Harvard dramatic situation. Referring to the Dos Passos '16 play, "The Moon Is a Gong", which, according to Hale, marked a new area in Harvard dramatics, the Boston reviewer writes in part...