Word: simplicist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...simplifier is hard. Simplicist Sherwood Anderson has been puzzling his head for years over the U. S. scene. In short stories, novels and autobiography he has struggled to focus what he sees into genuine art; occasionally he has succeeded. Lately he has taken to visiting factories, watching with his trou bled stare the unselfconscious machines, the unquestioning workers. Perhaps Women, a fragmentary notebook, is the result of these brooding visitations. Not the arguable art of economics but human beings, their daft ways, their queer needs, are what fascinate Sherwood Ander son. What Anderson thinks is wrong with...
...aching from her last affair, he welcomed her as a wanted complication. Then, against his will (he had no judgment) he found himself taking her seriously. Incapable of fidelity at his best, he went through all the contortions of betrayal, attempting even the wife of a best friend. A simplicist would say that Jo was his-own-worst enemy. His sadistic self-torturings finally landed him in a pretty mess: still completely married, practically sure he was in love with Tillie, he made dishonorable proposals of marriage to two other women. As luck and the author would have it, Tillie...
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