Word: sinclairism
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...other half jolted theatergoers from Tokyo to Copenhagen. When O'Neill first upped periscope on the U.S. scene, he joined that literary wolfpack which, as one critic put it, was staging "an ill-will tour of the American mind." H. L. Mencken was lustily swatting the "boo-boisie." Sinclair Lewis was baiting Babbitt. O'Neill tried to go deeper than both, and he both succeeded and failed. Few of his characters are as simple as Babbitt; but none, in all likelihood, will be remembered as long...
...audience home to commit suicide?" But the audiences seemed to enjoy the beating they took. In the ripe years 1920-35, O'Neill made almost $1,000,000. Three plays (Horizon, Anna Christie, Strange Interlude) won the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1936, he became the second American (after Sinclair Lewis) to win the Nobel Prize for Literature...
Speaking in Manhattan last week, Commerce Secretary Sinclair ("Sinny") Weeks, who seems to persist in casting himself as spokesman for the reactionary minority of business leaders, took a highly protectionist position on tariff policy.* What he said ran counter to the Administration's efforts to reduce trade barriers...
...biggest corporate fleet is General Motors, which has 25 planes of varying types. Sinclair Oil Corp. has twenty, and Ohio Oil Corp. has fifteen. The nation's oil companies go in for aircraft in a big way, since they must shift geologists and riggers from field to field...
...year 1927 is recorded in literary history as the year of Sinclair Lewis' Elmer Gantry. Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain and Willa Gather's Death Comes for the Archbishop, among other notable books, but for fans of Mazo de la Roche, the real importance of 1927 is that it saw the first of her Jalna novels. Now, 15 Jalna novels later, Author de la Roche has produced another volume in her indefatigable chronicle of the Whiteoak family of Ontario...