Word: sinclairism
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...Sinclair Lewis once remarked that he wanted no ceremony at his funeral except the singing of "Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here." The committee of prominent citizens which last week was making plans for Sinclair Lewis' funeral in his home town cf Sauk Centre, Minn, did not find this suggestion appropriate. Even if they had, few of the Old Gang were left to remember the good old days when Sinclair Lewis was considered an unholy terror, the Scourge of Main Street, and hell's own foreign correspondent sent up to malign God's country...
...Civilized Barbarian. Sinclair Lewis' works have become period pieces. But in his prime, Lewis had no peer as a knocker of "homo Americanibus." Sinclair Lewis wrote mainly about one man, George Follansbee Babbitt, of Zenith, the Zip town. George Babbitt was a helpless materialist whose one standard was money, a quavering conformist whose only security was found in the back-slapping approval of his fellow Rotarians. He lived in physical comfort greater than kings enjoyed in the past, but he rarely stopped to enjoy it, for he was a Hustler. He was ashamed of his secret dreams...
...Great Belch. Cried the hero of Lewis' second novel, Our Mr. Wrenn, a little Babbitt who managed to break out of his narrow life: "Let us be great lovers! Let us be mad! Let us stride over the hilltops!" Those were the sentiments on which Harry Sinclair Lewis, a doctor's son of New England ancestors, consciously patterned his life. He went to Yale, worked as janitor at Upton Sinclair's Socialist community of Helicon Hall in New Jersey, lived on rice in a California seaside cottage. In 1919, after publishing six conventional novels, all failures...
Booster of the Bourjoyce. Red of hair and red of face, nervous, cadaverous, loud, looking (in the words of one observer) "corrugated, modest and oafisha country-store type," Sinclair Lewis went on striding across the hills. But slowly, respectability, as it must to most rebels, came to Red Lewis. He became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which he had derided and denounced. His home town graciously forgave his insults, made him its favorite prodigal son. In a world of storm troopers and commissars, George Babbittand Red Lewisdid not look...
...whose pipeline runs from fields in East Texas and Louisiana to Middletown, Ohio, will add 580 miles of 26-in. feeder pipelines to bring another 200 million cubic feet of gas a day to the Midwest. Cost: $42.3 million. To increase the supply of fuel oil in the Midwest, Sinclair Pipe Line Co. plans to build a 700-mile, 22-in. pipeline from Drumright, Okla. to its refinery in East Chicago. Capacity: 145,000 barrels a day. Cost: $48 million...