Word: sherwood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interfere with a really unusual sense of journalism; but he has never allowed journalism to run away with his sense of true criticism, based upon his academic training. Perhaps he can be rated as our only academic journalist. His admirations are sometimes odd considering his background. He has praised Sherwood Anderson and found reason to admire Black Oxen...
This most recent volume of Sherwood Anderson is a collection of nine stories, long and short, with a Foreword and a short eulogy of Theodore Dreiser. It is not enough to catalogue those tales with the complaisant adjective "realistic" and marvel at the sordidness that is occasionally revealed or the peculiar intimacy of the author with human mental processes and physical passions. Several of them may truthfully be accused of realism; but on the whole they are far from that; when the author sees the worst, which is not seldom, he paints it blacker than actuality could conceivably be; when...
Enthusiastic steps were taken for the founding of a "youth movement," similar to that which swept in waves over Europe at the close of the War, when the younger generation attempted to organize itself against the materialism of its elders. Sherwood Eddy, in support of this, said: "The movement is a protest against the old social order. Over Europe as a whole, one-tenth of the people possess approximately nine-tenths of the wealth." With reference to America, he asked: "Is there no autocracy in industry when for 25 years from 1881 to 1906 we averaged 1,470 strikes...
...Wyck Brooks, an editor of The Freeman, was awarded The Dial Prize for "the best work of the year in American letters." His essays on Henry James were described as his most signal work for 1923. Two previous awards of this $2,000-prize have gone to Sherwood Anderson and T. S. Eliot...
...interested, but a trifle surprised at some of its phases, perhaps a trifle withdrawn from it. To them, realism consists of the painting of life as something which has its morbid moments; but these moments they find it better in their art to suggest rather than to display. When Sherwood Anderson's hero in Many Marriages divests himself of his clothes and parades naked before a glass, he is not only symbolical of the idea of Mr. Anderson's novel but of the strange and exaggerated narcissism of the younger realists. In the face of such aberrations...