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...Liberal Press was shunted well off to one corner. There Robert Morse Lovett of the New Republic pursed his lips in amused disapproval, nursed a fat brief case between his knees. With him was Author John Dos Passes, stern commentator on the American Scene, ingenuously delighted with his first National Convention which he, too, was to report for the New Republic at 2¢ a word. Publisher Henry Goddard Leach of the Forum looked on austerely from a private box. Scripps-Howard Colyumist Heywood Broun settled his flaccid paunch behind a narrow desk, wrote many a witty crack...
...today, we are as confused as any men of a century ago. We are the victims of a "jazzy impressionism;" "still", he admits, "our naturalistic deliquescence has probably not gone so far as one might infer from poetry like that of Mr. Sandburg or fiction like that of Mr. Dos Passos." When one reads the ponderous latinities into which Professor Babbitt occasionally slips we are inevitably reminded of Dr. Johnson; the similarity is greater still when one considers the dogma of the humanist, and the moral links between the great "chams" of London and Cambridge. But a review...
...imagination, are studies more immediately interesting to the student of literature. Professor Lowes comes in for his share of criticism in the former essay, and Professor Carpenter is nicked once in the course of the book. All in all, however, they fare better than do Rebecca West, Dos Passos, and the other demigods of contemporary literature...
...MODERN HERO-Louis Bromfield- Stokes ($2.50). From John Dos Passos-or Miguel de Cervantes-or from the blue. Author Bromfield takes his method of telling his latest tale. As the stream of narrative encounters the leading characters, the stream is diverted until the story of each character is told. Though some characters do their womanly best to quiet the stream, the modernistic hero always breaks it into ripples, rapids, finally a plunging waterfall. Pierre Radier is the love child of Madame Azai's, a leopard-trainer traveling with a circus in the Middle West. Of his father, Moise...
...others a vehement banner-waving. Among the banner men are Thomas Edward Shaw (Col. Lawrence), Richard Aldington, John Cowper Powys. Laboriously punting upstream Author Hanley owes much of the success of his early efforts to the wake of Richard Aldington and Poet Robert Graves in his country. John Dos Passes and William Faulkner...