Word: sinclairism
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...modern life. It is difficult to find in the younger English writers the sort of intense seriousness and vitality that is in the younger American authors. Writers like Dos Passes, Hemingway, Faulkner, are for the first time being accepted seriously in Europe as well as in America. It was Sinclair Lewis," winning the Nobel prize that gave Europe its first appreciation of the fact that Americans had something to say. Men like William March, Halper, Thomas Wolf, Claire Spencer, the author of an astounding novel, "Gallows Orchard," and a dozen others are making a literary future for America. The years...
...William Lyon Phelps concludes the issue with an interesting review of "Ann Vickers." Space precludes much comment; one quoted sentence will suffice: ". . . as Sinclair Lewis is so constituted that he must attack what seem to him oppressors or hypocrites or respectable solemnities, this is a book with a purpose...
...came. According to those promises: Some of Bonfils' early land deals were crooked. Big winners in his lottery were confederates. He blackmailed Denver merchants into buying his Post coal. He was horsewhipped into a hospital by a Denver husband. He took $250,000 hush-money from Harry F. Sinclair in the Teapot Dome scandal. And the elaborate house in which "Bon" Bonfils died was the object of particularly horrid whispers-that Bonfils got it extremely cheap from a man who feared publicity...
...Fourth and fifth places go to Sinclair Lewis' Main Street and Arthur Stuart Menteth Hutchinson's If Winter Comes...
...Before Sinclair ("Red") Lewis made a name for himself as a satirist of U. S. civilization he was a romancer and writer of romantic verse of the also-ran variety. The unromantic world, which dampens many high enthusiasms, turned his to hate. Because he was a good hater and because he gave a name to two U. S. phenomena- Main Street and Babbitt-that were crying for a name, the public finally applauded him and prizes came his way. But Sinclair Lewis is still, as he has always been, a romantic, an enthusiast. Though cynics say that if you want...