Word: promethean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Upton Sinclair called him "the playboy of the social revolution." To sympathetic Biographer Granville Hicks. Reed's life is an ennobling example of how revolutionaries are made. Unbiased readers of John Reed will feel that Sinclair's judgment hits nearest the mark, but that Reed was a Promethean playboy and what he played with was fire...
...monarchy, the grand manner was reserved for such uncommon themes as the death of kings, paradise lost or the celestial city found. Mass education has changed all that. Prizefighters, prostitutes, plain people of all kinds are the modern tragic heroes, and modern authors write about them in Promethean language. Time was when farmers figured in literature only as comic oafs or sullen clodhoppers, but Now in November pipes a more stately pastoral. Written with a slightly self-conscious sonority, this story of a Missouri farm reads like a poeticized almanac with a tragic ending...