Word: gideons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...GIDEON PLANISH - Sinclair Lewis - Random House...
...Lewis remains a first-rate writer. Let's just sit this one out." The time has come for readers to swarm back into the ballroom. In Gideon Planish, his 18th novel, the Nobel Prizewinner has the old shillelagh out and cracks it on the skulls of the "organizators" and "philanthrobbers" who man the huge U.S. industry of fundraising...
Little Gid Planish, aged ten, dreams of being something "rotund and oratorical." At college he concludes that virtue has to be organized. At 29 he is Dr. Gideon Planish, Professor of Rhetoric in Kinnikinick College, Iowa. He wears a small brown beard and is ready to jettison his too-provincial mistress. Already expert at self-deception and hypocrisy, he does not get rid of Teckla for his own good, but for hers. Thinks Gideon: "It wouldn't be fair to take her off to New York and Washington and face those snobs and intriguers...
...freshman class, Gideon finds Peony Jackson. He daydreams about her "shining in a chemise." She marries him. Gideon becomes editor of Rural Adult Education in Des Moines, learns to write reverently of "mothers, duck hunting, the Y.M.C.A., the Salvation Army, the Catholic Church, Rabbi Wise, the American flag, cornbread, Robert E. Lee, carburetors and children up to the age of eleven." As a lecturer, he learns to tell the lady on his right that the movies are a pernicious influence on the young, and the lady on his left that the movies stimulate the youthful imagination. Successively Gideon...
...People Die Forever ("so that we shall be sorry for each other"), the Confucianist fable With Deer's Milk He Supplied His Parents. By & large Editor Smith leaves out the sort of stories that Sunday-school teachers rely on. Her Old Testament anthology omits the tales of Joshua, Gideon, Samson and Daniel in favor of the minor prophets Amos, Hosea and Micah...