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...life. The new Sunday Newspaper Parody is the Dacron Republican-Democrat (slogan: One of America's Newspapers). The two parodies take aim at small-town American life in the '70's with the same spirit, and occasionally some of the pathos, of Sinclair Lewis and Sherwood Anderson...
These rough judgments cannot wholly condemn their maker. H.L. Mencken was above and below all an entertainer who liked to shock. In the process of making errors, he freed the language from cant and proved a tonic influence on writers from Sherwood Anderson to Norman Mailer. His tragedy was in staying too long at the zoo until his fellow visitors began to notice a want of sympathy and substance. Back in 1942, Critic Alfred Kazin observed that Mencken's "conception of the aesthetic life . . . was monstrous in its frivolity and ignorance." Others soon echoed the critique. Finally, even...
...genuine regard for Hemingway's genius but also an immature fascination with Hemingway the warrior and sportsman. Ernest, by contrast, had a desire to dominate and turn a cold shoulder on those whose help might appear to challenge his independence. The list of his ex-friends included Sherwood Anderson, Gertrude Stein, John Dos Passes and Archibald MacLeish...
...Corcoran and Sal D'Agostino both lost by narrow margins to their Princeton opponents. Evan Kovalsky edged Corcoran, 8-6, in the 158-lb. division, and D'Agostino, who was battling the flu, lost by a score of 12-7, to Mike Sherwood. At 190-lbs., D'Agostino has beaten Sherwood twice in the past and still has a very good shot at All-Ivy honors in his weight class...
...Garrison, Wharton had a variety of businesses for clients. His longtime love of the theater and entrepreneurial genius made him an imaginative adviser and friend of producers, playwrights and songwriters. In 1938 he helped form the Playwrights Producing Co., which gave its member-writers (Maxwell Anderson, Robert E. Sherwood and others) control over their own works through bypassing producers. More recently Wharton worked with the Theater Development Fund to establish a reduced-price ticket booth on Times Square...