Word: dreiser
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TRAGIC AMERICA-Theodore Dreiser-Liveright...
Aristotle's famous theory of dramatic katharsis, according to which men are supposed to purge themselves of dismal emotions by witnessing the enactment of tragedies still more dismal, seems to collapse before tragic authors in general, Theodore Dreiser in particular. An American Tragedy (1925) apparently did not dissipate, merely whetted his gloom. In Tragic America he looks for trouble wholesale, finds it just one more monopoly of the capitalistic system. "Actually an oligarchical group of lords in America is today seeking to enslave this great people. And, for that purpose, first seeking to debase it mentally." The implications...
...preventive against further debasement of American people's mentality Dreiser offers some 400 pages of statistical indictments of capitalism and capitalists. The Morgans, Supreme Court, Red Cross, railroads all come in for a good wigging. Nothing offering opportunity for indignation is left out, from the claim that "ROCKEFELLER is RELATIVELY...
...indicating briefly the part each played in the news of the past month: 1. George W. Olvany. 2. Hiram Johnson. 3. Amos W. W. Woodcock. 4. Duke of Manchester. 5. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. 6. Viscount of Ickornshaw. 7. Jana Lucia Deletz. 8. Mukden. 9. Albert C. Ritchie. 10. Theodore Dreiser...
...Theodore Dreiser (An American Tragedy) and a committee of writers belonging to the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners went to bloody Harlan County, Ky. to investigate coal miners' woes. At Pineville rustic detectives said they saw Investigator Dreiser and one Marie Pergain, blonde secretary attached to the party, go into Dreiser's room. The sleuths propped toothpicks against Investigator Dreiser's door. When they came back next morning, they said, the toothpicks were still in place. Investigator Dreiser, 60, and his friend were indicted for adultery. Mr. Dreiser left Kentucky, protested his innocence, backed...