Word: dreiserian
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...spiritual hankering which pervaded The Bulwark (TIME, March 25, 1946). After Cowperwood's death his mistress travels to India, seeks a religious meaning in life by studying Yoga. But she cannot reconcile spiritual claims with the poverty she sees around her, and is condemned to the old Dreiserian materialist world. In notes for a final chapter, which he did not live to write, Dreiser indicates that the mistress, with the money left her by Cowperwood, realizes his dream of subsidizing a hospital. Seldom has Dreiser allowed himself such a positive affirmation...
...Sisters (Warner Bros.) substitutes for Dreiserian strength, tenacity and patience;-chief merits of the Myron Brinig novel from which it was adapted-the cinematically more essential merits of pace, tidiness and scenic value. Opening at an election-night ball in the mining town of Silver Bow, Mont, in the year 1904, the picture traces the lives of half-a-dozen of the guests, ending, for no particular reason, when they meet again to get the early returns in 1908. Ostensibly its three heroines are Louise, Helen, and Grace Elliott, daughters of Silver Bow's druggist, but before much footage...
...some offerings, nor yet of the clever wittiness of some; but on the contrary, of the reversion to that primitive state where artists find that their works are no more than mediums for expressing observations, where their paintings are like unto Aesop's fables, where their art becomes Dreiserian...