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...John Dos Passos, William Saroyan. Her backers have been much impressed by two eminent French appraisals of Marianne Oswald : "She is an actress of song. She has a kind of bestial ugliness. But beauty passes, as they say, and the art of this ugly child will remain."-Colette...
...Disturbed by undergraduate pacifism. Yaleman Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress, accused the writers of his own generation (Ernest Hemingway, Walter Millis, John Dos Passos, Richard Aldington, et al.) of disarming the U. S. Said he (at a convention of the American Association for Adult Education in Manhattan): "The moral and spiritual unpreparedness of the country is worse than its unpreparedness in arms. . . . The effect [of these authors' books] has been to immunize the young generation against any attempt in its own country by its own leaders to foment a war by waving moral flags and rhetorical phrases. But they...
These readers' comments are printed in the current issue of a magazine called Partisan Review. In previous issues have appeared comments of another kind, like John Dos Passos' "Best literary magazine in America," and the (London) Criterion'?, rarely awarded adjective, "excellent." Both kinds of opinion are held in literary circles; both suggest the curious resonance of the Partisan Review and the small cluster of radical intellectuals...
...most interesting single product drawings of cellophane-glossed girls by George Petty. Despite its coy title. The Bedside Esquire contains no art-teasers; it is solid print. Among the 77 items: stories or articles, mainly second-rate, by the late D. H. Lawrence and Thome Smith, by John Dos Passes, Erskine Caldwell, Theodore Dreiser, John Steinbeck, Westbrook Pegler; The Snows of Kilimanjaro, one of the most ambitious and psychologically the most painful of Hemingway's stories; a wide-open Ring Lardner razz of wrestling ("Come on, Alexis; take me. Anything but a toehold."); Helen Brown Norden's famous...
From 1,700 candidates the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation picked 73 to spend 1940-41 doing special studies at its expense (average grant $2,500 per scholar). Cast in unusual roles by the awards are two successful candidates: Novelist John dos Passes, who will complete a series of essays on present American conceptions of freedom of thought; Artist Miguel Covarrubias, who will write a book on the culture of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec...