Word: dreiser
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although not an avowed backer in English composition of what may be called the Wendellian Law, Mr. Chase believes that Anderson and Dreiser and all the rest will fifty years hence be as unread as the Congressional Record. Several things are wrong with Anderson, to his mind. He is to obsessed with sex, and sex perversion. "Winesburg, Ohio" was saturated with people, ranging from the philosopher who does not understand his own sexual frustration and so is writing a book to show that all the world is Christ and is suffering on the Cross, to the hotel proprietor's wife...
...Dreiser. Arrived at Manhattan, last week, famed novelist Theodore Dreiser commented upon an extensive visit which he had just made to Soviet Russia. Said he: ". . .A short time before the exile of Leon (Lev) Trotsky (TIME, Dec. 26) he was subjected to pelting with vegetables...
CHAINS-Theodore Dreiser-Boni & Liveright ($2.50). Lesser novels and stories by the American Tragedian...
...essays, book reviews of the jaunty type that let you in on the book's title only in the third paragraph. The College will see there things on Dean Briggs and on Professor Abbott's "The New Barbarians". The general reader will share with the College a potpourri of Dreiser, Thoreau, Anatole France, de la Mare, Lardner, and Montaigne. Mr. Sherman's tastes were notoriously catholic; and here he shows, regrettably for the last time, an ability to be all things to all men that is as refreshing as note worthy...
...applause is much less so. The reader suspects that he had so many tastes that at bottom he had none at all. The two places where he makes an attempt at any kind of distinguishing, in preferring Esther Shephard's "Paul Bunyan" to James Stephens', and in protesting against Dreiser's fearful style, are too obvious to argue any great subtlety. Elsewhere he is prone to sit back, fold his hands comfortably over his stomach and say: "Great, absolutely great! Do go on!" by the hour together. He does not like everything else he treats--but almost, and it cannot...