Word: dreiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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AMERICA Is WORTH SAVING - Theodore Dreiser-Modern...
Many books end up in Hollywood. Last week, for a change, two books came out of Hollywood. Both carry identical counsel for the U. S. citizen on identical subjects: Defense, Democracy and World War II. America Is Worth Saving is a spiteful, wretchedly written tract by great, aging Theodore Dreiser (The Titan, An American Tragedy), who lives in Hollywood, lectures to California's women's clubs. The Remarkable Andrew might well be Dreiser's tract scripted into a novel by its author, Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo...
...plot is about the return of the ghost of General Andrew Jackson to help an admirer. Trumbo's General Jackson agrees with Theodore Dreiser right down the line: 1) Europe's wars are no concern whatever of the U. S.; 2) the U. S. has little interest in the British Fleet; 3) Great Britain is not a democracy; 4) if Hitler can't even cross the English Channel, he can't cross the Atlantic; 5) U. S. concern with fifth columnists is hysteria; 6) Ger many is not "an international outlaw"; 7) the U. S. didn...
Back from the war, a newsman's hero, he might have had a better job, but Jock Bellairs went on covering police. He helped to break in Herbert Bayard Swope, Theodore Dreiser, Paul Y. Anderson-all cubs when Jock was already a veteran. His exploits were legend in St. Louis. Once, with some friends, he dragged a dead Chinese to a bar, drank heartily, left the Chinese to pay the bill. Once he tried to drive a horse and buggy across the Mississippi River...
...precision with dialogue, and only Richard Hughes has written so well of the behavior of children. Without one line of comment, Williams makes clear "social significances" which the authors of Middletown can only bumble over. With scarcely a skid into deliberate lyricism, whole chapters become lyric. Dickens without gush, Dreiser without fat, Lardner without cynicism, might combine to approximate it. On his subtle, flexible, nonliterary monotone, Dr. Williams seems to carry, without gasp or gesture, the whole load of daily living...