Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shortly before his death, reported the New York Times Book Review, Sinclair Lewis had reached a decision: "America is too big for the Great American Novel. America's impossible to grasp...
WORLD So WIDE (250 pp.)-Sinclair Lewis-Random House...
Before his death in Italy two months ago, Sinclair Lewis finished his 22nd and last novel and called it World So Wide. It is an awkward, rambling book, often close to a caricature of Lewis at his best. But it will be read for what it is: "Red" Lewis' valedictory to his fellow Americans...
Milord the Major. In World So Wide, Sinclair Lewis is again the Midwesterner who discovered the world and could not get over it. In one passage which almost recaptures the spirit of Dodsworth, Lewis observes: "Mr. Henry James was breathless over the spectacle of Americans living abroad and how very queer they are. . .But just how queer they are, Mr. James never knew. He never saw a radio reporter, never talked to an American Oil Company proconsul gossiping in the Via Veneto about his native Texas . . . Mr. James's . . . young American suitor, apologetic for having been reared...
Ford Theater (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS). Sinclair Lewis' The Ghost Patrol, with Ernest Truex...