Word: dos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Updike '54 in Hollis 11, and Left Conservative Norman Mailer '43 in Grays 11, James Agee '32, now undergoing one of the most sustained revivals of any American author, made his freshman way in Thayer 45. He had considerable inspiration from previous Thayerites. Both leftist-turned-National Reviewer John Dos Passos '16 and poet E. E. Cummings '15 left literary residue from their freshmen years in Thayer...
Over the next forty years, Wilson went about-- often single-handedly--rehabilitating American criticism. Wilson forced America to recognize her best talents. He was among the first to appreciate Hemingway, he counseled Fitzgerald and he championed Dos Passos. Led by a faith in the possibilities of the Republic which he inherited from his father, and sustained by the eclectic humanism of his Princeton mentor Christian Gauss, Wilson entered into journalism as if he were fulfilling a public trust. Within the pages of the New Republic and the New Yorker, Wilson presented subjects as diverse as poetry and symbolism, historiography...
...tense to attend a preliminary screening of two 1921 Chaplin films: The Idle Class and The Kid. At a cocktail party for about 50 notables at a suite in his hotel, Charlie and Oona came late, sat down, and limited their conversation pretty much to how-do-you-dos...
Concerned DOS officers are seizing their own initiative. A group has banded together to launch a class action against the Secretary of State; to raise money for this expensive exercise, they have instituted the Charles W. Thomas Fund. One junior officer invoked a more primitive grievance procedure. Furious over what he considered an unfair performance rating, he stopped his superior in a corridor of the State Department and cut loose a smacking right cross to the nose...
...staccato ring of a contemporary editorial, but the words are from John Dos Passos' U.S.A., circa 1936. The outburst was triggered by the execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian anarchists accused of a Massachusetts robbery and killing, and tried in the atmosphere of '20s xenophobia...