Word: dos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG MAN-John Dos Passos-Harcourf, Brace...
Critics generally have praised John Dos Passos' trilogy, 1919, The 42nd Parallel, The Big Money (now published in one volume as U. S. A.). Leftist critics have pointed to it with pride as a dramatization of Marxist theory. "It is Dos Passos," said Communist Critic Granville Hicks, "that has shown the [Marxist] way. . . . There is no apparent obstacle to his continued growth...
...years ago the American Writers' Congress overwhelmingly voted The Big Money best novel of the year. That was on June 6. Three weeks later, Dos Passos' name was mud with the Marxists. His heresy: an article called Farewell to Europe, damning "the intricate and bloody machinery of Kremlin policy" in Spain, thanking heaven that "the Atlantic is a good wide ocean...
Rutherford suggests that instead of research courses in the happenings of former centuries, students study the workings of the W.P.A. and that instead of "being nauseated by the Mathers, both increase and Cotton, they might be stirred up over John Dos Passes' reports of the living American scene...
...Rights of Asylum for Leon Trotsky. In Loyalist Spain where the G.P.U. was much more in evidence than Russian arms, the Trotskyites and the POUM were murdered and framed by the Stalinists on the charge of being "paid agents of Franco." Such men as Ignazio Silone, John Dos Passos, and James Farrell; to mention a few, protest this. Several months ago Loyalist courts cleared the POUMists of this charge and branded as "crude forgeries" the "proof" of their guilt...