Word: sinclairism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About the most conventional thing a Harvard undergraduate of literary tastes can do is to write a novel about a Harvard undergraduate. The case of Wells Lewis, Harvard '39, is complicated by the fact that his father Sinclair, Yale '07, also writes novels...
Wells Lewis is Sinclair Lewis' son by his first marriage-a grave, poised, sandy-haired young man of 21, studying history, absorbed in music, and certainly unlike the youthful monstrosities Sinclair Lewis satirized in The Prodigal Parents. Last year Son Wells began working on his novel in Harvard, continued it in Mexico while visiting his mother, incidentally bringing Mexico into the story, delivered it last week to his publishers, Farrar & Rinehart...
Through this long period Father Sinclair gave him no literary assistance, maintained that if Wells wanted to write novels it was his own business. But when the book was finished, turning into a story of an undergraduate's adjustment to life which shows that college has not changed much since the days of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis weakened, handed over one of his best titles for his son's first book: They Still...
...dank, smelly meadows of Linden, N.J. are pimpled with an enormous collection of oil tanks-30 belonging to Sinclair, 175 to Cities Service, 800 to Standard Oil of New Jersey-huddled closely around one of the largest U.S. refineries (Standard's). One day last week a Cities Service tank of ethyl gasoline blew up with force enough to toss its top 150 yards. A flaming geyser of 1,680,000 gallons of gasoline in a few minutes was splattering a dozen other tanks. By midnight 18 tanks had collapsed into a scarlet pool of blazing oil. Watchers got scorched...
...year 1922 was a big year for modern literature. In that year appeared T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland, Joyce's Ulysses, Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt, the first (English-translated) volume of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. The other literary landmark of that year was a startling encyclopedia, edited by Harold Stearns, called Civilization in the United States, the collective work of some 30 outspoken "young intellectuals," including such names as H.L. Mencken, Van Wyck Brooks, Lewis Mumford. The startling thing about the book was the contributors' pessimism. While the press, economists and politicians glorified...