Word: sinclairism
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...Seal Viscount ("Bobbity") Cranborne, a liberal, conscientious Tory and a Cecil, was asked. He declined on "grounds of health." Then rumor had it that Australian Robert G. Casey, currently Resident Minister in Cairo for the British War Cabinet, was approached. Lately came news that Liberal Party Leader Sir Archibald Sinclair was the choice, that Churchill had taken him along on a northern tour to sell him the idea. But Sir Archibald, too, said...
There is no Dreiser or Sinclair Lewis in the book; but Dreiser's effects depend on cumulative mass, and Lewis' great talents were not for creative but for reportorial writing. Unfortunately, there is no Scott Fitzgerald, either. The editors also went wrong on Thurber and Willa Gather, who deserved better selections. Southern writers are perhaps too generously treated. With these flaws, it remains a solid anthology. Among the selections...
...Clair's shrewish fiancée is a malicious description of an All-American female type; the abortive wedding is vintage Clair; and the lethally heavy quartered-oak set in which this love feast takes place packs enough documentary U.S. satire to stock a whole volume of Sinclair Lewis...
...Sound of an American has already stirred up considerable cacophony. The book, a sequence of bedroom scenes staged before and during the fall of France, has been compared to the work of Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, Tolstoy. It has also been called clumsily vulgar and inept...
...Party leader, Air Secretary Sir Archibald Sinclair, who from hailing distance could be mistaken for Disraeli, put it: "If we [the British people] are to avoid the alternative evils of economic anarchy and bureaucratic stagnation, we will have to make very considerable changes in the machinery of government...