Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Modern American literature received three encouraging pats on the back and a stinging slap in the face at the hands of four prominent literary figures at Rindge Tech last night before a responsive Law School Forum audience...
Lewisohn, who spoke third on the Forum program, bitterly attacked the modern American novel as something "stone dead" and condemned the entire movement of naturalism in American literature since Dreiser. He claimed that modern American writers had "taken the cast-off rags of James Joyce and tricked out their prose in them" as a last attempt to make their books seem meaningful...
...only hope for American literature, Lewisohn concluded, is to be found in the work of such prose writers as Thornton Wilder, and such modern poets as Frederic Prokosch, Karl Shapiro, and Peter Viereck. He especially commended Vierock, who, he said, has been alone in his attempt to "convey with lucidity and power certain fundamental realities. of the spirit of man-which is the true purpose of all literature...
...expert in modern European history, Brinton joined the Harvard faculty in 1923. Five years later he received an assistant professorship. In 1935 he became an associate professor and in 1942 was elevated to the rank of full professor...
Coach Henry Lamar of the freshman football team is Sisyphus in modern dress...