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Flirtation & Favor. Berlin-born Fritz Behrendt's caricaturing skill, as well as his hostility to the Reds, had improbable origins. His father wanted him to be a pastry cook. But Behrendt boned up instead on Upton Sinclair and Karl Marx, spent part of his youth flirting with the left. He worked on road-building projects for Marshal Tito in Yugoslavia, took a free course at a Zagreb art school, moved to East Berlin on a job illustrating books for prospective young Communists. But after Stalin denounced Titoism, Behrendt became disillusioned...
...SINCLAIR LEWIS (867 pp.)-MarkScho-rer-McGraw-Hill...
...term had been invented earlier, Sinclair Lewis might have qualified as the U.S.'s first Angry Young Man. He was obstreperous enough, and like his latter-day counterparts, his anger at society was that of a jilted lover...
Lewis was the third son of a stiffnecked Minnesota small-town doctor, whose approbation the writer always sought and never quite won. (Dr. Lewis wrote of his son in 1925: "It is certainly marvelous how such a bundle of nerves can pull in the money.") Christened Harry Sinclair Lewis and usually called Hal or Red, he was a tall, skinny, ginger-headed man afflicted all his life with a badly blotched complexion that set the seal on his ugliness. His physical unattractiveness made his youth lonely and affected his character and work. In this long and lovingly detailed biography, Critic...
Sophomores found little alarming in Professor Pitirim Sorokin's warning that modern war is 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 colleges could be dropped to the advantage of everybody." Lewis denounced grading as "absurd"; whether he heard or not, Dean Hanford agreed enough to propose that separate April and November hour grades be abolished. The head of the Faculty approved this and dropped midyear probations and attendance records for upperclassmen at the same time. The head...