Word: sinclairism
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TIME long ago recognized the tremendous and growing importance of the West and resolved, so to speak, that it would itself "go West and grow up with the country." So for years we have been calling national attention to all kinds of news unfolding in the West-from Upton Sinclair and Harry Bridges to Henry Kaiser, from Ham-and-Eggs and Hetch-Hetchy to Bonneville Dam. And percentagewise we now have more readers on the Coast than any other front-rank magazine...
...what Student Lucius Beebe, who spent a year at Yale, called "a unique ability for translating the obscure refine ments of literature into an idiom which the undergraduate mind could readily grasp." Student Sinclair Lewis, '07, called him the one college teacher of his generation able to "inoculate students . . . with his own passion for the secret joys of good literature," a man who changed the university into a "friendly concourse of human beings interested in learning...
...even modern in the eyes of the sophisticated '20s. They could not agree with him that the swing of Eddie Guest's verse was "perfect," Walt Whitman "nothing but a Sears-Roebuck catalogue with calliope accompaniment."* Some of them were interested in James Joyce, Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis. Phelps...
...Upton Sinclair, famed California socialistic novelist and pamphleteer, hinted last week that New Dealers were suppressing freedom of the press through paper allotments...
Reason: he suspected WPB had refused him extra paper to enable him to carry on his California pamphlet-publishing business because the Government does not like his views. Sinclair said he would appeal to the President, might even file a suit against...