Word: dos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seamen's supply store, became the resort uniform: white duck trousers, striped jersey, the sailor's work cap that Scott called a jockey cap in the novel. What set the Murphys apart was a special, large-minded devotion to each other and to their friends. Dos Passos called the marriage "unshakable-everyone was at his best around the Murphys." Though she was notably candid with them, Sara in particular doted on her friends: "It wasn't parties that made it such a gay time," she said. "There was such affection between everybody. You loved your friends...
Along with the dos are some don'ts. Under the heading, "Seven Sins of the Urban Guerrilla," Marighella lists "inexperience, boasting, vanity, exaggeration of his strength, lack of patience, anger and a failure to plan properly...
...Dos Passos, who died last week of a heart attack at 74, was the last major survivor of the literary generation that included Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Steinbeck and Faulkner. His work has been slighted in recent years. Politics-the central theme and passion of much of his writing-helped to undermine his reputation. Read today, Dos Passes' earlier works often seem as archaic as the rhetoric of Wobblies. But there are also passages that seem eerily prescient: "All right we are two nations. America our nation has been beaten by strangers who have bought the laws and fenced...
...language of 1936 sounds like the outcry of dissent today, Dos Passos would have none of it now. In fairly familiar disenchantment, Dos Passos turned against Communism in the 1930s. By the '60s, he was voting for Richard Nixon and Barry Goldwater. To Dos Passos, big labor and centralized Government had replaced "the big-money boys" as the American villains. But the most consistent theme in his life was a vaguely anarchic impulse, a craving for individuality which no ideology could permanently satisfy...
Died. John Dos Passes, 74, novelist-chronicler of the post-World War I generation (see THE NATION...