Word: parrington
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mold, most of them read as if written by one man: a learned but conventional professor. (One happy exception: the chapter on "American Language," in which the gay, strong hand of H. L. Mencken quickly shows itself.) What a reader misses here is what he finds in Vernon Louis Parrington's Main Currents in American Thought: one mind in command of a subject, sometimes pulling a boner but more often arousing excitement and curiosity, and always leaving on the reader the sharp stamp of an individual point of view...
...since--like Dreiser's other posthumous novel "The Bulwark"-- "The Stoic's" chief importance is historical rather than literary. The jacket blurb to the contrary, "The Stoic" simply does not reach the stature of "The Financier" or "The Titan," its predecessors in "The Trilogy of Desire." In concluding what Parrington called "a colossal study of the American businessman," Dreiser tells those familiar with the earlier volumes little they do not already know about Frank Algernon Cowperwood, his hero. As for the reader with a casual interest in the business mind, he would do better to sample "The Financier...
...Latin essay, "Haee Temporum Tristitia," won Davis $150, while Pressly's $100 third prize was for an essay on "Vernon Parrington and the Writing of American Literary History...
...account of the U.S. past ever interested - or upset - so many U.S. citizens. In the same year as The Rise (1927) Vernon Louis Parrington published his pioneering Main Currents in American Thought (which shows the Beardian in fluence on every page) and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for it. Said Mrs. Parrington: "They had to give the prize to one or the other of them, and I guess Vernon's book is less disturbing...
...University of Oklahoma has changed presidents almost as often as the State changed Governors, and for the same reason-politics. One of its few professors of distinction, the late Vernon Louis Parrington, was fired in 1908 for smoking cigarets. He later won a Pulitzer prize in history (for Main Currents in American Thought...