Word: dos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Good Will." These four books, (two volumes, in the American edition, of which the second is "Passion's Pilgrims") constitute a sort of prologue to the narrative which is to follow. In the second volume Romains again shows himself absolute master of the kaleidoscopic novel, the peer of Dos Passos at his best and even of James Joyce in the penetration and fertility of his imagination. Threads in the lives of his multitude of characters are picked up at intervals and followed long enough to make clear the peculiar problems of each, both in their relation to individual character...
...Good Will might have stirred up more excitement among critics if Authors James Joyce, John Dos Passos et al. had not already shown the way. Though Author Romains claims to be the originator of this style of modern novel-architecture, others were certainly first in the field. But if not best or first of its kind, Men of Good Will may yet be biggest...
...Soviet reader were asked to name his favorite U. S. author he would probably say John Dos Passes. If the same question were put to a Swede, the first name off his tongue would doubtless be that Nobel Prizeman Sinclair Lewis. But such a loyal Swede would have in mind Author Lewis' earlier, better books (Main Street, Babbitt, Elmer Gantry). With such a second-rate novel as Work of Art following hard on the heels of his mediocre Ann Vickers (TIME, Jan. 30, 1933), readers of any nationality can see with half an eye that Sinclair Lewis is slipping...
Harvard Club of Milwaukee, Eldred M. Keays '07, Secretary, 110 East Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, Wis.; Harvard Club of Minnesota, Louis B. Bersback, Secretary, 702 Wesley Temple Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn.; Harvard Club of Dos Moines, Harold H. Newcomb, Secretary, Register & Tribune Bldg., Des Moiues, Iowa; Harvard Club of St. Louis, Richard Morey, Jr. '27, Secretary, 509 Olive St., St. Louis, Mo.; Harvard Club of Kansas City, E. S. Washburn '25, Secretary, 1022 Arno Road, Kansas City, Mo.; Harvard Club of Cleveland, Walter J. Milde '25, Secretary, 1759 Union Trust Bldg., Cleveland, Ohio...
...those that were is Author Robert Melvin Coates' Yesterday's Burdens. Too far to the left for many a middle-of-the-roader, this novel is squarely in the centre of the modern experimental path-a path broad enough to accommodate Ulysses and the books of John Dos Passes, but on which such backtracking behemoths as Anthony Adverse never set hoof. Fated to be overlooked or judged "queer" by the general reader, Yesterday's Burdens will excite the attention of those who are more interested in whither the novel is going than in whence it has come...