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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...
Willa Gather died, and readers recognized the passing of a true artist. Theodore Dreiser's final novel provided reminiscent readers with more of the honest pulp into which that slow, bewildered mill of meditation converted the tough timber of life. Booth Tarkington's last unfinished story faintly echoed the springtime tones that he caught from young middle-class voices in another...
Written shortly before his death, when Dreiser had forsaken institutionalized religion for a Communist party membership card, the thorough and obviously sympathetic discussion of Berenice's training in Yogi lore reveals that Dreiser has finally found solutions to problems long troubling him. Always religious in nature and temperament, Dreiser devoted a good deal of his life to a search for earthly realization of the values of Christ. Rejecting Church dogma as sterile and oppressive, he ultimately found his personal Christ in Communism. Yet Dreiser's moving desire to explain the life force in other than material terms demanded a religious...