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DRAGON'S TEETH - Upton Sinclair -Viking...
Dragon's Teeth is the third and best volume in Upton Sinclair's rich cyclorama of 20th-Century world history (World's End, Between Two Worlds, TIME, June 24, 1940 & March 24). It is the first to suggest that the completed work may, for all its lack of psychological and esthetic depth, be almost great. Great or not, few works of fiction are more fun to read; fewer still make history half as clear, or as humane...
From the outside, Ambassador Davies' *Mission to Moscow; Simon & Schuster; $3. Moscow mission looked like some super Sinclair Lewis saga of a Babbitt among the Bolsheviks. A rich, self-made corporation lawyer from Wisconsin, he ran Woodrow Wilson's Western campaign in 1912, later headed the Federal Trade Commission, in 1913 refused the Ambassadorship to Russia. Accepting the post 23 years later, he took with him his second wife, Mrs. Marjorie Post Close Hutton Davies, who inherited $20,000,000 from her father (Postum), was used to a 54-room triplex Manhattan apartment, owned a massive steam& -square...
Then writers typified by Henry Adams and later Upton Sinclair developed to a "realistic facing of the problems raised b urban growth," he stated further. "Finally, following World War I, novelists became used to the phenomena of the city, which previously they had considered an ugly ogre in American life, and took it more or less for granted"; and men such as "Ernest Hemingway have since concerned themselves in their novels with the reactions of individual characters to special emotional situations" without resort to a stereotyped local color or urban setting...
...Sinclair Lewis defined a "lady" as "a woman so incompetent as to have to take refuge in a secluded class like kings and idiots who have to be treated with special kindness because they can't take...