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Ignore the Experts. Even worse than the news awards, Stewart thinks, are the Pulitzers for arts & letters. The Pulitzer board appoints "expert jurymen" to advise it on these prizes, but frequently ignores their recommendations. Some Pulitzer-scorned novelists: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, Theodore Dreiser, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passes, William Faulkner. Concludes Stewart: "The awards have rarely erred in the direction of courage and unconventionality, and only occasionally in the direction of fine taste...
Retorted Robert Charbonneau, Montreal writer and publisher: "Let the facts talk. If Americans do not like literature, how then explain the success of writers like Hemingway, Steinbeck, Faulkner, Dos Passos, Thomas Wolfe, Eugene O'Neill...
Several critics have already compared That Winter to Dos Passos as well as to Hemingway, which is to overlook the fact that, above all else, these authors were originals...
Discursions. Intermixed with these scenes are long essays on revolution and German philosophy, brief glimpses of minor characters in a technique similar to that of John Dos Passes in U.S.A., long autobiographical discursions grouped under the heading: The Disintegration of Values. Some of them are hauntingly phrased: "The man who from afar off yearns for his wife or merely for the home of his childhood has begun his sleepwalking. . . . He still hears the voice of the demagogue, but it comes as a mere unmeaning murmur. He stretches his arms sideways and forwards like a poor tightrope dancer who, high above...
...flaws and its frequent failures, "Raintree County" is worth a few days' wading-through, if only to experience those scattered portions of the mass that crop up almost without warning to give the impression of real greatness. Lockridge displays direct inheritance from Welfe and from Joyee and from Dos Passes, but most of the time it is all Lockridge and the good earth of Raintree County...