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AMERICA Is WORTH SAVING - Theodore Dreiser-Modern...
Back from the war, a newsman's hero, he might have had a better job, but Jock Bellairs went on covering police. He helped to break in Herbert Bayard Swope, Theodore Dreiser, Paul Y. Anderson-all cubs when Jock was already a veteran. His exploits were legend in St. Louis. Once, with some friends, he dragged a dead Chinese to a bar, drank heartily, left the Chinese to pay the bill. Once he tried to drive a horse and buggy across the Mississippi River...
...precision with dialogue, and only Richard Hughes has written so well of the behavior of children. Without one line of comment, Williams makes clear "social significances" which the authors of Middletown can only bumble over. With scarcely a skid into deliberate lyricism, whole chapters become lyric. Dickens without gush, Dreiser without fat, Lardner without cynicism, might combine to approximate it. On his subtle, flexible, nonliterary monotone, Dr. Williams seems to carry, without gasp or gesture, the whole load of daily living...
...paint factory in Elyria, Ohio, was dictating a letter to his secretary. Suddenly he said, "I am walking in the bed of a river," put on his hat, strode out of the paint factory, out of the town forever. He got an advertising job in Chicago, met Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg, Ben Hecht, began writing stories himself. After two poor novels, Anderson brought out a remarkable sketch of small-town life, Winesburg, Ohio...
...bearing author. . . ." Critic Bernard De Voto observed: "So far none of Ernest Hemingway's characters has had any more consciousness than a jaguar." Critic Max Eastman wrote his Bull in the Afternoon, one day traded blows with angry Author Hemingway in the most diverting literary brawl since Theodore Dreiser punched Sinclair Lewis. There was a feeling abroad that Hemingway was a little too obsessed with sex, a little too obsessed with blood for the sake of blood, killing for the sake of killing. Even his admirers wondered where he was going to find another experience big enough to make...