Word: sherwood
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...commodity was its hostesses. Brecker chose them, he said, for their refinement rather than their looks. In theory they were forbidden to date the customers. Charging 11? a dance or $1.50 a half-hour, they became something of a legend in the '20s and '30s. Ring Lardner, Sherwood Anderson, Fitzgerald and John O'Hara put them in their stories...
Take away unhappy childhoods and a seething contempt for the old hometown and many a U.S. writer might never have set pen to paper. Still, rebels like Sinclair Lewis, Sherwood Anderson and Theodore Dreiser were moved at least as much by compassion for their Midwestern farmers and townsfolk as they were by a kind of rage because life was not more beautiful. Their kind of literary rebellion is as dated today as the harsh, shallow life they raged against. That is what makes The Narrow Covering, a first novel by Kansas-born Julia Siebel, as curious and archaic as grandpa...
...heart of Sherwood Forest, sober-sided Harold Macmillan, Chancellor of the British Exchequer, took corona in mouth and bow in hand, tried to hit a short-range bull's-eye with a suction-cupped arrow in an attempt to promote the sale of his brain child, a savings bond that pays no interest, but offers investors a chance to win ?1,000-a financial stratagem known to Britons as "having a flutter on Harold." Nobody's archery was good enough to win the prize-one ?1 bond. Southpaw Archer Macmillan, perhaps with sporting intent, missed the target...
William Roberts ingeniously solved the problem of the many scene shifts by projecting settings on a screen from back-stage. The main fault of the production was director Benno Frank's ill-advised decision to ruin Sherwood's simplicity and sincerity by suffixing a saccharine pantomime: a group of young Negro girls ran up on stage and raised their hands to the American flag while the loud-speakers blared forth a recording of "Glory, glory, hallelujah, for his truth goes marching...
...little better. The New Republic was run by "kept idealists," and the Nation was staffed "by men and women who were suffering the change of life." Mencken's high jinks masked low insight, according to Angoff, and Mencken never fully understood even the writers he championed, e.g., Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Sinclair Lewis. He thought Henry James "was an idiot, and a Boston idiot to boot, than which there is nothing lower in the world, eh?" F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby was "poor stuff." Said Mencken of Hemingway: "The man can't write. Just...