Word: dreiser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Place in the Sun (Paramont), judging from the competition so far, is the picture to beat for IQSI'S Academy Awards. Producer-Director George Stevens' modern version of the late Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy is at once a faithful adaptation of the novel, an artful job of moviemaking and an engrossing piece of popular entertainment...
Elizabeth Taylor, 19, an authentic beauty with eyes like melting diamonds who can, given the right direction, almost act. Her latest and best part: the rich girl in A Place in the Sun, movie version of Dreiser's American Tragedy...
...took a stack of books along on their honeymoon, made her read Sinclair Lewis, Dreiser, Dostoevski. She took a U.C.L.A. correspondence course in economics and English literature, tackled War and Peace, The Magic Mountain ("I thought I'd never finish that damn book") and Das Kapital ("Ever since then," says a friend, "she has been spelling capital with...
This "humanitarian feeling," from which all of Dreiser's best work flowed, is an often incoherent sympathy--of Whitman-like proportions--for the poor and the weak. It reaches its fullest expression in his documentary account of the murder trial of Clyde Griffiths in "An American Tragedy." In the best chapter of the book, Matthiessen analyses this novel both in the light of its own time and in relation to the rest of American literature. He ends by agreeing with Joseph Wood Krutch's estimate that it is "the great American novel of our generation...
...critic, Matthiessen was preoccupied with greatness. His books were addressed to the peaks of American literary achievement--to the work of Emerson, Whitman, Melville, Henry James, and T. S. Eliot. Whether or not Dreiser belongs in this group will depend, perhaps, on the events and attitudes of the future, but this study is an able statement of the case for the affirmative...