Word: dreiser
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americanism," and half the leading U.S. writers believed him. The aging Lincoln Steffens could return from Russia declaring "I have seen the future, and it works." It was the time of the fellow traveler, and among the famous fellows who traveled were Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos and Theodore Dreiser...
Massachusetts has made some progress since the days when it banned Dreiser's An American Tragedy, but not much. This week, for example, Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer was banned with no fuss, no hysteria, no monkey-trial shenanigans. It was a reasonable hearing in which reasonable men argued their sides before a reasonable judge. Yet the decision revealed that this is still the commonwealth of the Yahoos, the Grundys and the Comstocks...
Urged on by such reformers as Novelist Theodore Dreiser, President Theodore Roosevelt in 1909 called the first White House Conference on the Care of Dependent Children. That meeting established the seemingly simple principle that a child was better off with a family, even if it was not his own, than he was in the cold and impersonal atmosphere of an institution. As Roosevelt said, "Home life is the highest and finest product of civilization. Children should not be deprived of it except for urgent and compelling reasons...
...became convinced that Theodore Dreiser had plagiarized part of a book Dorothy had written about Russia. At a dinner attended by Dreiser, Lewis got drunk, refused to make a speech, explaining: "I do not care to speak in the presence of a man who has stolen 3,000 words from my wife's book." Dreiser sought him out afterward, demanded that Lewis make the statement again or take it back. Lewis made it again. "So I smacked him," recounted Dreiser later with relish. "And I asked him if he wanted to say it again. He said it again...
...Bullitt '43, associate professor of English will conduct a course on in the Eighteenth Century . The course, to be given in the will "focus mainly on English A survey of "American Fiction 1890" will be undertaken by Poirier, assistant professor of English Among the authors to be Howells, James, Dreiser, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner...