Word: sinclairism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...place, not even a 'thank you' from General Franco. This is not in the interests of democracy or the interests of the safety of the British Empire. The Government is thinking all the time of the interests of British capital." When Attlee tired, Sir Archibald Sinclair took up the attack for the Liberal forces. Said he: "Unlike this Government, Franco will remain faithful to his own principles and own friends. . . . Don't forget that a part of the policy of Franco's supporters is the recovery of Gibraltar from Britain." The British Government's epitaph...
...Arrowsmith, his famed novel about the medical profession, Yaleman Sinclair Lewis pilloried pretentious scientists by describing an imaginary and phony temple of science called McGurk Institute on Manhattan's Cedar Street. Arrowsmith was published before the founding of Yale University's Institute of Human Relations, but by a luckless coincidence Yale's Institute in New Haven also stands on a Cedar Street. Yale's Institute has many critics who make the most of that coincidence...
...Goose Chase, an imaginative first novel which perhaps deserved more readers than it got, Rex Warner wrote a modern allegory combining athletic prose, adventurous satire, thriller action. Less allegorical and more exciting, The Professor comes nearest to an English It Can't Happen Here, skids nearer plausibility than Sinclair Lewis' political goose-bumper...
Dorothy Thompson was never married to a U. S. President, but her writings receive almost as wide attention throughout the land as do those of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt (see col. 1). Miss Thompson's husband, Novelist Sinclair Lewis, in his most famed book, Main Street, reached fewer U. S. voters than Miss Thompson reaches daily in her syndicated column On The Record (audience: 7,000,000). Last week Dorothy Thompson picked up a phrase by Herbert Hoover-"Ideas cannot be cured with battleships"-and retorted: "Ideas can certainly be spread and suppressed by the sword...
Helen Hayes, Orson Welles (Fri. 9:00 p. m. CBS) in Campbell Soup's version of Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith...