Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...theme: his antipathy toward big business, big cities; his faith in small colleges, banks and towns. Almost nostalgically he recalled spending "the best ten years of my life" on a 540-acre farm in Jackson County, Mo. "I would rather see a thousand banks," he said, "than one National City Bank. I would rather see a hundred steel companies than one United States Steel Corporation." Explained the biggest shot in the biggest Government in the world: "Those small institutions give some two or three men a chance to be big shots in their communities. When you go to [big ones...
...Wesley Jackson is his first post-Army book, and his second novel (the first: The Human Comedy). He wrote Wesley in "36 or 37 days," and explains: "I think something done swiftly has a little more art in it, and by art I mean cohesion...
...ADVENTURES OF WESLEY JACKSON (285 pp.) - William Saroyan - Harcourt, Brace...
...hunch is wrong. It is more like a parody on almost all his worst weaknesses. He has loosened his loose, gabby prose until it is as flabby as Nesselrode custard. His hero, Private Wesley Jackson, is a writer-of the Saroyan persuasion. He even has the Army job Saroyan had: writing scenarios for training and documentary films. And just to moisten the damp resemblance, Saroyan makes him a precocious Californian: Wesley is published in the New Republic when he is only 18-but it never goes to his head. Nothing does...
Slashing at those who would "transfer one's attention to an insoluble (problem), such as doing away with all national sovreignty, he cited the admonition of Andrew Jackson at the battle of New Orleans--"Boys, elevate them guns a little lower." Rather, he insisted, we should "conduct our own affairs with. . . the type of judgement, as Judge Brandeis used to say, which leads a man not to stand in front of a locomotive." Directing attention toward problems of manageable dimensions "like the monetary fund, the bank, the trade organization, and, if possible, the control of atomic energy," will...