Word: dos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...critics called Josephine Herbst's The Executioner Waits one of the best novels of the year, ranked it and its predecessor, Pity Is Not Enough, just below the novels of John Dos Passes. A modern U. S. tragedy, told against a big background, these novels traced the history of the Pennsylvania-Dutch Trexler family from post-Civil War days to 1929, at once took rank as one of the best chronicles of a U. S. average family and a social...
JOURNEYS BETWEEN WARS-John Dos Passos-Harcourt, Brace...
...certain elements in the Faculty would strongly object. But even the granting of an appointment demonstrates the sincerity of the University in professing the ideal of unbiased liberalism in education, and in praising this it should be declared that to the ranks of notable Harvard liberals, like novelist Dos Passos and lawyers Brandeis and Frankfurter and writer Lovett, must be added scholar Granville Hicks...
...Journeys Between Wars, Dos Passos has taken selections from these two books, brought them up to date with a section on the civil war in Spain, and with the inclusion of accounts of trips to Mexico and Russia, made the book a unified volume of 394 pages covering his travels over 20 years. It is spattered with characteristic Dos Passos splashes of color, like his description of his first glimpse of Toledo: "Against the grey and ochrestreaked theatre of the Cigarrales were piled masses of buttressed wall that caught the orange sunset light on many tall plane surfaces rising into...
...Dos Passos saw famine and typhus in the Near East, talked over Bolshevik atrocities with Russian refugees, Turkish atrocities with Greeks and Armenians, English duplicity with Arabs. In Spain he was startled to hear a mountain peasant exclaim, "America is the world of the future." In Arabia a native told him owlishly that the English "were united and used their guns only to shoot strangers, while the Arabs were always squabbling among themselves and were very nice to strangers." Hating high-flown sentiments in all forms (he read Juvenal on the way to Damascus, did not like it because...