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WORLD So WIDE (250 pp.)-Sinclair Lewis-Random House...
Ford Theater (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS). Sinclair Lewis' The Ghost Patrol, with Ernest Truex...
...dare you compare lovable, honest, confused, right-minded George F. Babbitt and the sanctimonious hypocrite Elmer Gantry? No knave, Babbitt. Once his conscience is awakened, he tries to fight the restrictions of his society, but of course he loses. I am all for Sinclair Lewis. Along with Remain Rolland and maybe a couple of others, he showed that in the 20th Century it is still possible to understand the foibles of humanity and yet have a warm love for people...
...Lewis' portrayal of the "semi-civilized barbarian" does not justify the term "period piece" in these days, when the only faith we have is in materialism -only we have gone Babbitt one better and put our hopes in militaristic materialism. Possibly a re-examination of the Babbitts which Sinclair Lewis portrayed so well will teach us to put our faith in something better during...
...Sinclair Lewis is not a great writer, America has never had one . . . Mark Twain was not a great writer until the American people woke up 50 years too late. By the same token, Walt Whitman was not a great writer, either. Nevertheless, when Lewis said: "I'm the best goddam writer in this here goddam country," drunk or sober, he was right...