Word: dos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other ethical injunction may seem strained to laymen. After accepting an invitation to serve at a show the judge is advised to retire into semi-seclusion, as far as dos shows are concerned, until time to enter the ring. Reasons: 1) the indispensable paying spectators will not attend dog shows if they suspect trickery; 2) knavish exhibitors believe all other exhibitors equally bad-intentioned...
Author Romains' method is reminiscent of John Dos Passos' (The 42nd, Parallel; 1919) and Aldous Huxley's (Point Counter Point), but he refuses to admit that they have influenced him: "I salute these experiments; I admire them on occasion. . . . But I salute them as younger comrades, and with some sense of priority." Though he has been actually working on Men of Good Will for only twelve years, he has been preparing for it since 1905. Of the 65-odd characters introduced in this first volume, few are related, many do not even meet. As each chapter carries...
...Author. Though agitated left-wing critics have made much pother about the rise of U. S. "proletarian literature," few respectable examples have so far come to light. To the sparse shelf that holds John Dos Passes' unfinished trilogy (The 42nd Parallel, 1919) critics can now add the beginning of Josephine Herbst's. Her purpose is orthodox: to show the collapse of the "bourgeois" class. The second volume will bring her Trexler family up to the War; the third to 1933. Like Dos Passes, Authoress Herbst is not a member of the Communist Party, though her sympathies are even...
Burned, but not condemned to the crowd, were books by several U. S. authors: Helen Keller, Upton Sinclair, Jack London, John Dos Passes, Ex-Judge Ben Lindsey...
...Benson, Head Tutor of Lowell House, has written a "Survey of the First Two Years of the House Plan" with suggested revisions so as to include the graduate schools in the system. There will be a letter by John Dos Passos '16 telling what he got as well as what he did not get out of Harvard. Two letters on the value of a college education have been written by Newton D. Baker and Clarence Darrow. The former lauds college education whereas the latter deprecates...