Word: dreiser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lewis handled the English language almost as clumsily as Theodore Dreiser, and with less force; he marshaled as many fascinating minor characters as Sherwood Anderson, but his understanding of them did not approach Anderson's awkward but subtle sympathy. Lewis was a good reporter, with an eye for detail. His mimicry of American speech was sometimes an inspired burlesque; his humor was usually broad enough for a Rotary luncheon...
...addition to selections from Matthiessen's book, "From the Heart of Europe," and a chapter from his biography of Theodore Dreiser, which he had nearly completed at the time of his death, the memorial issue contains personal reminiscences and sketches by more than a score of his friends and associates...
Matthiessen was an expert on Melville and Hawtherne, as well as Dreiser...
This taut little novel takes a sharp look at one of the oldest problems in literature: the origins and consequences of a crime of passion. Like Theodore Dreiser in An American Tragedy, though on a far more modest scale, Novelist Foote has tried to find out and explain why a peaceable, inoffensive man can sometimes be driven to murder. He has set his story in his native Mississippi among the poor-white farmers and the small-town characters he intimately knows...
...Communist-inspired Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace, spoke up for the eleven Communist leaders convicted in Judge Harold Medina's court. For a while his name made headlines. But recently, on leave from Harvard, he had been silent, busy with a new book on Theodore Dreiser...