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Klee, Kandinsky and Mondrian stand in somewhat the same relation to art as Gertrude Stein does to literature. Just as the unfettered Stein prose confused many a layman but benefited such popular writers as Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos, so the abstractionists have had a major impact on U.S. typography, advertising layout, architecture (see cut). By now, the layman, whether he knows it or not, owes a good-sized debt to the nonobjective painters...
...John Dos Passos, novelist (Manhattan Transfer, Big Money) turned LIFE war correspondent in the Philippines, was reported knocked cold, gashed in the head, given a black eye and slight concussion when hit on the head by the wingtip of a landing Piper Cub plane. Correspondent Dos Passos merely noted that he suffered "a nasty little accident (almost got my block knocked off by a plane...
When French Revolutionists seized Captain Shaw's ship, the stubborn New Englander braved Robespierre and wicked Paris to get it back. Humor and deft characterization lift this book a notch above the standard adventure romance. Co-author Smith is Mrs. John Dos Passos...
Unloading the Detail. The 89 pages given over to wartime Washington are a brief masterpiece of social reporting. No U.S. writer can match Dos Passos' use of the hackneyed, senseless, stupefying jargon of political insincerity. Nor is any other writer so quick to detect the process by which ideas harden into cliches, stock answers, pat remarks as offensive as the slamming of a door...
...Dos Passos was in Washington when the antistrike bill was passed over the President's veto (TIME, July 5, 1943). He talked with cynical New Dealers, got in an argument with a Communist taxi driver. He found out what "unloading the detail" means. He asked what happened when an industry was taken over by the Government. " 'That's easy .. . first we call a meeting of department heads.' " 'Aren't they all busy? . . .' " 'Nobody's ever so busy he can't take on something more, if he knows how to unload...