Word: dos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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JOURNEYS BETWEEN WARS-John Dos Passos-Harcourt, Brace...
...John Dos Passos published a book on Spain, Rosinante to the Road Again, followed it five years later with one on his travels in the Near East, Orient Express. These random recollections of unconventional journeys were written in a glancing, impressionistic style, with characterizations of fellow travelers blending with offhand comments on politics and tag lines from overheard conversations...
...high point of Dos Passos' journey in Spain was not in adventures, but in a quiet talk with a seasoned native. The high point of his Far Eastern trip was a 37-day caravan ride from Romadi to Damascus, on which there were occasional fights with bandits, and on which the novelist came to the conclusion that the "little black men with the camel colts are the finest people in the world...
...time." Little known in Spain until 1927, when he returned to Madrid after two years in Florence, he gradually became recognized as one of the finest artists of the people since Goya. While he was in prison for his Socialism in 1931, Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passes got him his first one-man show in the U. S. In July 1936, he finished his most ambitious mural, eleven panels containing 140 life-size figures, for Madrid's monument to the founder of Spanish Socialism, Pablo Iglesias. A few nights later Painter Quintanilla made himself a hero...
...John Dos Passes-Harcourt Brace ($3). One volume, 1,500-page edition of Dos Passes' trilogy: Forty-Second Parallel, 1919, The Big Money...