Word: menckeniana
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Again comes an outburst from the entrant terrible of contemporary literature. In the current issue of Menckeniana, Sinclair Lewis levels a loaded pen at "Sell Conscious America". Returning from the new Magna Americana on the left bank of the Sethe, he is ready to place another Maine Street beside those of the maligned Middle West. There is little difference, in his opinion, between the multiple masses of the mediocre who are content with the Sunday suppliments and those who fill Paris with their now conventional caprice. The self consciousness of the one matches that of the ether. "To have...
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