Word: sherwoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Walt Whitman's Song of the Open Road many a U. S. writer has attempted a modern sequel to that ringing inventory of the U. S. scene. Bravest of these attempts have come from such contemporary novelists as John Dos Passos, Sherwood Anderson, Thomas Wolfe. To the lesser footnotes Novelist Nathan Asch (The Office, Pay Day) this week added his own modestly tentative, well-written account of what the U. S. means after a four-month bus trip...
...earliest Hasty Pudding-play was presented in 1844, and the first original operetta was produced in 1882. These continued without interruption until 1917 when the United States entered the World War. Then, two weeks before the premiere of Robert E. Sherwood's undergraduate effort "Barnum Was Right", the entire cast voted to cancel production and enlist. Among the members of that wartime cast, seven were killed in action and three were decorated for distinguished service...
Paul A. Vestal '32, the report continues, is studying the history of the wild grasses and plants and their development into the semi- and fully developed domesticated species which are the basis of man's civilized existence. Meanwhile, Sherwood L. Washburn is studying the paleontology of excavated animal bones for light on man's diet and habits during the neolithic period...
...being bored, has sat down at the table of the world, shuffled the cards, and is now diverting himself with a variety of solitaire called Idiot's Delight. That is the cosmic view as modernized by Robert E. Sherwood, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne are made to sit in a resort hotel in the mountains of Italy that were Austria's not so long ago and welcome in the Second World War. "Onward Christian Soldiers" comes forth from them and the piano to mingle with the crash of bombs and the tinkle of glass in the sporadically lit-up darkness...
...BRANDON-Sherwood Anderson- Scribner...