Word: dreiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Helen Choate Bell Prize will be divided between Stanley J. Friedman '48 of Brooklyn, New York and Adams House and Cyrus I. Harvey, Jr. '47 of Boston and Winthrop House. Friedman submitted an essay entitled "Theodore Dreiser and the Dispossessed," while Harvey's was entitled "Winesburg, Ohio: A Reinterpretation...
Absent from the Great Critics sessions was the sage of Baltimore, Critic H. L. Mencken. But over a beer, Mencken peppered the visitors with a shakerful of critical opinions. Sample: "The thing about Theodore Dreiser always was his enormous unintelligence. He reached heights of unintelligence as great as any of the heights of intelligence that Aristotle achieved...
Ignore the Experts. Even worse than the news awards, Stewart thinks, are the Pulitzers for arts & letters. The Pulitzer board appoints "expert jurymen" to advise it on these prizes, but frequently ignores their recommendations. Some Pulitzer-scorned novelists: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, Theodore Dreiser, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passes, William Faulkner. Concludes Stewart: "The awards have rarely erred in the direction of courage and unconventionality, and only occasionally in the direction of fine taste...
...Impulse. Hopper did not hit his stride until middle age, when sudden fame as an interpreter of the American scene-a sort of Theodore Dreiser in art-freed him. Nowadays, Hopper and his wife, who keeps her own painting studiously in the background, can afford a house on Cape Cod as well as their Manhattan studio apartment overlooking Washington Square...
...true. Suspended for opposing America's entry into World War I, the Masses reappeared in 1918 as the Liberator. In 1926 it became New Masses, pledged to avoid "political affiliations or propaganda obligations." As late as 1936 it could get, for little or no money, such writers as Dreiser and Dos Passes, such poets as Millay and William Rose Benet, such artists as Gropper and Groth...