Word: dreiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suppose that there is necessarily an intellectual 'depth' in the deep tones of the organ; it is possibly the sign of a deprivation-our suspicion of gaiety in art perhaps signifies an inadequate seriousness in ourselves. A generation charmed by the lugubrious-once in O'Neill, Dreiser and Anderson, now in Steinbeck and Van Wyck Brooks-is perhaps fleeing from the trivial shape of its own thoughts...
Hired by Hollywood to write a film story for an ice skater was ponderous Theodore Dreiser, 71. The New York Post reported, in the past tense: "Theodore Dreiser . . . was a titan ... he was one of the favored modern authors. . . . In 1925 he published An American Tragedy, a major work...
There is no Dreiser or Sinclair Lewis in the book; but Dreiser's effects depend on cumulative mass, and Lewis' great talents were not for creative but for reportorial writing. Unfortunately, there is no Scott Fitzgerald, either. The editors also went wrong on Thurber and Willa Gather, who deserved better selections. Southern writers are perhaps too generously treated. With these flaws, it remains a solid anthology. Among the selections...
Died. Sarah White Dreiser, 73, wife of Novelist Theodore Dreiser; in St. Louis. They met when he was a reporter on the St. Louis Republic, she a small town schoolteacher, married in 1898, separated in 1910, were never divorced...
Noteworthy reactions to hulking, humorless Novelist Theodore Dreiser's damnation of the British war effort, in which he said he preferred Nazi rule in Britain to rule by "aristocratic, horse-riding snobs": Pearl Buck, Clifton Fadiman, Rex Stout, F.P.A., other members of the Writers' War Board said the Dreiser remarks were "sabotage," possibly "treasonable," observed "our enemies would pay him well for his disservice to our country's cause." And from London piped George Bernard Shaw: "To say that Dreiser's comments regarding the war are furiously inaccurate is only to say that they are like...