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Rutherford suggests that instead of research courses in the happenings of former centuries, students study the workings of the W.P.A. and that instead of "being nauseated by the Mathers, both increase and Cotton, they might be stirred up over John Dos Passes' reports of the living American scene...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Esquire Reviewer Strikes at Theory Of Education at Harvard; Cites Book | 5/16/1939 | See Source »

...Rights of Asylum for Leon Trotsky. In Loyalist Spain where the G.P.U. was much more in evidence than Russian arms, the Trotskyites and the POUM were murdered and framed by the Stalinists on the charge of being "paid agents of Franco." Such men as Ignazio Silone, John Dos Passos, and James Farrell; to mention a few, protest this. Several months ago Loyalist courts cleared the POUMists of this charge and branded as "crude forgeries" the "proof" of their guilt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 3/16/1939 | See Source »

...critics called Josephine Herbst's The Executioner Waits one of the best novels of the year, ranked it and its predecessor, Pity Is Not Enough, just below the novels of John Dos Passes. A modern U. S. tragedy, told against a big background, these novels traced the history of the Pennsylvania-Dutch Trexler family from post-Civil War days to 1929, at once took rank as one of the best chronicles of a U. S. average family and a social...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Solvent | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

JOURNEYS BETWEEN WARS-John Dos Passos-Harcourt, Brace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books of the Year | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...certain elements in the Faculty would strongly object. But even the granting of an appointment demonstrates the sincerity of the University in professing the ideal of unbiased liberalism in education, and in praising this it should be declared that to the ranks of notable Harvard liberals, like novelist Dos Passos and lawyers Brandeis and Frankfurter and writer Lovett, must be added scholar Granville Hicks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE THEORY IN PRACTICE | 4/13/1938 | See Source »

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