Word: sinclairism
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...This one, I don't care if it's genuine, for in two sentences it distills the richness of a Sinclair Lewis novel: "The man to who you sent your advertisement died suddenly last Thursday. He was a Sunday school teacher, leader in Boy Scout Council, loved by his sales force and customers - and hated by his wife for his sexual perversions encouraged by magazine's like yours...
...Exactly a century ago, Upton Sinclair published his novel The Jungle, about an immigrant who is exploited at every turn: paying the people who bring them to America, exploited by their bosses as they work in subhuman conditions at the brutal job of meatpacking (i.e., animal slaughter) in Chicago's stockyards, where political and economic corruption is the m.o. of unfettered capitalism...
This is no Horatio Alger story of a boy picking himself up from nothing. It is far closer to something Upton Sinclair would have written. A major subtext of the book is Freddie's maturity as a person coinciding with his political awakening. This begins during an exciting sequence when he finds himself caught up in a protest against the Henry Ford plant. Like a scene from an Eisenstein movie, the protesters face Ford's gun thugs by singing the International, leading to a horrific massacre. Later Freddie and Sam join a group of outcasts working together...
...songs from its recently released debut album “Morning Stanzas.” Paradise Rock Club. 9 p.m. Tickets available through nextticketing.com. $12 in advance; $14 day of show. (MEE) Frank Smith with Age Rings, Tiny Amps, and Mittens. Although Frank Smith, started in 2000 by Aaron Sinclair, does not involve anyone named Frank or Smith, its six part-time members recently released their third CD, “Think Farms.” Openers are Age Rings at 9:15 p.m., Tiny Amps at 10:15, and Mittens at 11:15. T.T. The Bear?...
...There were to be no exceptions to the new rule, according to a Jan. 17, 1950, minute from the Adjutant General, Major General Warren Anderson, to Army Secretary Frank Sinclair. Even the cold-blooded bayoneting of Chinese men, women and children at Linden, in New Guinea, went unpunished...