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UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN Mark Schorer, professor of English, University of California at Berkeley, Sinclair Lewis biographer Litt.D...
There was no lack of persons ready to offer advice. Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, told the freshmen that modern war was 2000 times worse than the medieval version. Clarence Darrow denounced "poverty-creating big business" as the cause of all crime." Sinclair Lewis declared that "one half the people in college could be dropped to the advantage of everybody." Lewis dismissed grading as "absurd"; whether he heard or not Dean Hanford agreed enough to propose that separate April and November hour grades should be abolished. The head of the Faculty approved this and dropped midyear probations and attendance...
...years, the Black Sash members-largely women of English stock whose husbands oppose the government-once again vowed to stand stern symbolic watch until Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's government forced the sabotage bill through to the inevitable successful vote. In the autumn chill, Black Sash Chairman Jean Sinclair, a 54-year-old Johannesburg housewife, and her handful of matronly recruits were swathed in overcoats as they lit their symbolic torch of freedom and posted placards reading "Reject the Sabotage Bill." Promptly, young pro-Nationalist hooligans gathered to hurl eggs, water bombs, stones. Once a crowd of 400 rushed...
After five days of violence, Mrs. Sinclair bowed to a plea from the Johannesburg city council that at least the night vigils be stopped. That evening, inside the city hall, Composer Igor Stravinsky was conducting the South African Broadcasting Corp.'s symphony orchestra in the first of five concerts for whites only (a sixth was reserved for blacks). Stravinsky had asked that seating be integrated, but the broadcasting authorities coldly refused. The maestro's opinion: "Music takes precedence over politics. I don't think about these things because it is outside my competence. I have so many...
...evening's main feature, the guests were marshaled into the gold-curtained East Room, where Actor Fredric March read excerpts from the works of three dead Nobel laureates. First came the heavily sarcastic foreword to Sinclair Lewis' Main Street: "Main Street is the climax of civilization. That this Ford car might stand in front of the Bon Ton Store, Hannibal invaded Rome and Erasmus wrote in Oxford cloisters...