Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...named "Kansas," he opened one eye to a slit, then grinned at the gawping newshawks. In a few moments wires throughout the U. S. carried the news of how the Democratic and Republican nominees for the Presidency would meet in the midst of the campaign, discuss the non-political subject of Drought. To find an historical precedent, oldsters had to go back to 1896 when William McKinley and William Jennings Bryan, both out stumping, met by chance in a small Nebraska town...
Last and most perplexing of Dos Passos' innovations is The Camera Eye. Purpose of these autobiographical prose poems is to suggest the shifting point of view of the author as he turns his imagination on the characters who fill his book and the combination of influences that have made him the individual he is and given him the point of view he holds. Like fragmentary warnings scattered through the volumes, they constantly remind the reader of the author's bias, warn him that Dos Passes' picture of reality has been colored by his personal experiences. After...
...This trilogy also includes 27 brief biographies of such representative public figures as Steinmetz, Luther Burbank, Henry Ford, Sam Insull, Hearst, Isadora Duncan, Rudolph Valentino, artfully spaced throughout the three volumes. The author provides, in addition, a shorthand autobiography in the form of 51 poetic interludes, called The Camera Eye, which show his own attitude toward the events in which his characters are involved. Like most works of fiction that are written in tandem, each novel in Dos Passos' series makes sense in its own right, gains in cumulative intensity if read in its place in the whole impressive...
...Nelson of the Sentinel entered the Penny Pencil department for the Crowell prize. With him Country Home's Editor Wheeler McMillen agreed on the excellence of Mrs. Eisele's accounts of threshing time, preserve making, poultry raising, the minutiae of farm life, observed with a humorous eye, set down with a sensitive pencil...
...England companies is the real boss. Boss Dumaine started as an office boy in Amoskeag's Boston office in 1880, rose not only in Amoskeag but in Boston's Old Colony Trust Co. Two-fisted and frugal, Treasurer Dumaine looked a looming 1928 deficit in the eye, turned down a $42,000,000 offer for Amoskeag's plant and assets, promised: "I am ready to do all possible, institute every economy, shoulder every responsibility and stand every criticism, to carry...