Word: guilts
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THEIRS BE THE GUILT (287 pp.)-Upton Sinclair-Twayne Publishers...
Upton Sinclair has always been the most unreal character in his own books. He proves this once again in Theirs Be the Guilt, a re-edit of Manassas, which he wrote 56 years ago. Sinclair, then 24, was living in two tents near Princeton, NJ. and doing research from books hauled from the university library in a rented horse and buggy. Years have left the innocent style intact-a genuine fustian or homespun purple-as well as the sentimentality, which would shame Dickens for a cynic. Thus the novel is not only a publishing oddity but it gives a rare...
Like other Sinclair novels, Theirs Be the Guilt has its Lanny Budd, i.e., a character who, when history's big scenes are played, is to be found stage center, or at least behind the arras with tape recorder. Here, this character is Allan Montague, a boy growing up on a slightly mythical Southern plantation, with a swarm of smiling Negroes in the great house-and another swarm of Negroes out in the cotton fields, where it is hard to see if they are smiling or not. Probably not. But for Allan and his dashing cousins, 'Dolph and Ralph...
...Aufbau, says Manfred George, has "never stressed the concept of collective guilt for Germany." This policy has paid off in cordial relations with the German government. In 1951 Theodor Heuss, President of West Germany, gave Aufbau an exclusive on the decision of the West German government to pay restitution to Jews for property they lost under Hitler...
...first to be a doctor and later an artist, but at Hiram College he made good conversation and bad grades. He wandered to New York, wrote verse, painted, and sent passionate letters of contrition when his hard-pressed parents suggested that he get a job. In 1906, full of guilt and despair, the 26-year-old drifter began the first of his great walking trips...