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...eventually joined the Harvard faculty, but during an early hiatus in his Harvard teaching career, he worked at a research laboratory at the Kennicott Copper Corporation...
Sauk Centre, like most of Minnesota, is a great place for contrasts, for progressive thinking and dug-in resistance, for surprises. The minister of the First United Church-of-Christ is a woman, the Rev. Donna Van Voorhis. Women in Sauk Centre have come a long way since Carol Kennicott, the heroine of Main Street, left home because "solitary dishwashing isn't enough to satisfy me $ --or many other women." Minnesota has a long liberal political tradition, but the state also teems with right-wing extremists like the vigilante group called posse comitatus. The whist players at John's Place...
...movement has made me more content with my lot. I know I'm not the only one who's complaining; I'm not nuts." Norma Johnson, 37, snares the frustration over the banality of small-town social life with Sinclair Lewis' Main Street rebel, Carol Kennicott. She has spent eight years in night classes working toward her bachelor's and master's degrees. "I got to be age 30 and thought, 'Is this all there is-the bridge and socials and on and on?' I went back to school...
...point about Main Street was that Carol Kennicott knew that Gopher Prairie was full of philistines, but did not understand that Chanel No. 5 would never rout a gopher from its hole...
There was something of Babbitt in his creator, Sinclair Lewis, and there was something of Carol Kennicott in his first wife, Grace Hegger Lewis. Gracie was, Lewis once wrote, "all the good part of Carol." This lends an uncommon interest to what would otherwise be a commonplace biography-Grace's account of her years with...