Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yale University Library, the late Sinclair Lewis left all his "books, manuscripts, pictures and private papers of every sort...
...Great Belch. Cried the hero of Lewis' second novel, Our Mr. Wrenn, a little Babbitt who managed to break out of his narrow life: "Let us be great lovers! Let us be mad! Let us stride over the hilltops!" Those were the sentiments on which Harry Sinclair Lewis, a doctor's son of New England ancestors, consciously patterned his life. He went to Yale, worked as janitor at Upton Sinclair's Socialist community of Helicon Hall in New Jersey, lived on rice in a California seaside cottage. In 1919, after publishing six conventional novels, all failures...
Booster of the Bourjoyce. Red of hair and red of face, nervous, cadaverous, loud, looking (in the words of one observer) "corrugated, modest and oafisha country-store type," Sinclair Lewis went on striding across the hills. But slowly, respectability, as it must to most rebels, came to Red Lewis. He became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which he had derided and denounced. His home town graciously forgave his insults, made him its favorite prodigal son. In a world of storm troopers and commissars, George Babbittand Red Lewisdid not look...
Condemnable Monopoly. Rotary could take in its stride the lampooning it got in Babbitt from the late novelist Sinclair Lewis (see p. 36), but the Vatican's blow was something else. Puzzled Rotarians in the U.S.Catholic as well as Protestantreacted with a stunned and unanimous "Why?" Some remembered a campaign against Rotary waged in 1928-29 by Rome's potent Jesuit magazine, Civiltà Cattolica. In many countries, the magazine charged, Rotary was altogether too friendly with the Masons, and was dangerously prone to the error of treating all religions as of equal value...
...Died. Sinclair Lewis, 65, novelist; first U.S. author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature; of a heart ailment; in Rome...