Word: myths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is Lockridge's first effort, and his six years of labor have produced a gigantic and complicated penetration into The American Myth, enmeshed in a tome which numbers 1066 pages and three explanatory charts that piece out a momentous Fourth of July in an Indiana small town...
Somehow, though, all this is never more than partly successful. Once in a while, glimmerings of the Myth shine out, but more often the reader is too tangled up in meandering and philosophizing to grasp the insights that always seem to lie just below the surface of comprehension. Lockridge's peculiar arrangement of incidents is of little help. For some reason, he has invented an annoying little stunt of running together the last sentence of an episode in 1892 with the first few words in a flashback sequence. Perhaps this ties the two together in the reader's mind...
...appraisal of the estate if the late Washington hostess, Evalyn Walsh McLean exploded a popular myth. Her famed, traditionally unlucky, 44¼-kt. Hope Diamond, which Sunday-supplement readers had thought of as a $2,000,000 gem, was valued at $176,920 ($22,920 more than was paid...
...made of Wolfe, he admits that "no other important modern writer has appeared so often naive, extravagant, maudlin, ludicrous." But the strength of Wolfe's novels lies in their deep and loving evocation of significant segments of U.S. life; Thomas Wolfe's "image is the great national myth, the American Dream." No one else has so vividly rendered the inner tensions of ordinary, unintellectual small-town Americans-and done so in the traditional rolling phrases of the American declamatory style which Wolfe inherited from Whitman and Melville...
...think the myth of Red superiority is a bubble. They do, however, have two advantages over us. They have initiative . . . Hitler had it too . . . any burglar has . . . while we're bound to legal nonaggressive methods both morally and politically. As compensation, we have the advantage of people who are generally accepted as being in the right...