Word: dos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been laid under tribute by the present editors gives one a legitimate pride in having had anything at all to do with such an apostolic succession. Here are some of the names contained in it: Norman Hapgood, William Vaughn Moody, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Alan Seegar, Van Wyck Brooks, John Dos Passos, Walter Lippmann--the catalogue should really be given in full. It is too trite an observation to venture, that when these and other undergraduates were trying their wings in the "Monthly" their names meant not a whit more to the reading public than those of our young contemporaries...
...York City what his Street Scene did for one of its blocks, the novel is a sort of tabloid morality play, about on a literary level with Felix Reisenberg's East Side, West Side, leading best-seller of its kind, a number of levels below John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer. Clearly marked for commercial success, this Rice pudding is seasoned with everything that ever came out of Author Rice's cupboard: courtroom atmosphere (On Trial, Counsellor-at-Law), social indignation (We, the People), personal pique (letters to the New York Times), alternately satirical and glamorous treatment...
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR CORKING HEMINGWAY ARTICLE [TIME, Oct. 18]. JUST AS YOUR EXITING COLOR REPRODUCTIONS IN LIFE ARE FURTHERING THE CAUSE OF MODERN AMERICAN ART YOUR TIME ARTICLES ON SUCH GREAT WRITERS AS DOS PASSOS AND HEMINGWAY ARE WAKING THIS COUNTRY TO THE FACT THAT OUR CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE IS SOMETHING OF WHICH EVERY AMERICAN CAN BE INTENSELY PROUD I HATE TO QUIBBLE BUT LAST TIME I WAS IN HEMINGWAY'S HOME IN KEY WEST I DEFINITELY SAW THREE SONS TRUE WE HAD TAKEN ON BOARD A QUANTITY OF HEMINGWAY'S SUPERB IRISH WHISKEY, BUT SURELY NOT ENOUGH...
...Spanish War touched off a hitherto well-hidden social consciousness, enlisted him violently on the Loyalist side. No longer big-incomed, he managed to raise $40,000 on his personal notes and dispatched the sum to buy ambulances for Madrid, followed soon after (with Joris Ivens, John Ferno, John Dos Passos) to film The Spanish Earth. Returning last June to soundtrack his commentary on the film, he paused long enough to pronounce before the League of American Writers, in his first public speech, a scathing indictment of Fascism, to collect at one private showing of the film in Hollywood...
...Spanish Earth (Contemporary Historians, Inc.). Last winter Writers John Dos Passos, Archibald MacLeish and Ernest Hemingway (see p. 66) decided that one way they might intelligently serve the Spanish Leftists was by producing a film showing the Leftists' version of the origin and progress of the revolution. Finding that little of the source material available in the U. S. could adequately supply them with the dramatic and pictorial qualities they had in mind, Messrs. Dos Passos and MacLeish formed Contemporary Historians, Inc., decided to send their own experts to Spain. There Dutch Director Joris Ivens and Author Hemingway...