Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aging (71) Novelist Upton (The Jungle) Sinclair feared that an H-bomb attack would destroy his 40-year hoard of literary papers. In a letter to the Saturday Review of Literature, he offered the collection to "some library or museum" for safekeeping. Where is the treasure now? "I wouldn't tell for a million dollars...
...Upton Sinclair; France's Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, ex-Communists André Malraux and André Gide. First place went to Steinbeck, who "jumped from the camp of progress and love of humanity into the camp of frantic reaction, barbarism and cannibalism...
...years, the U.S. has had a high old time sneering at George Babbitt-the bumptious bandersnatch businessman cartooned into being by Sinclair Lewis. He was the all-American philistine of the '20s. The '30s and '40s tried to kill him with scorn. But he was a tough old party, and now, it appears, he has a son & heir following firmly in his daddy's footsteps. In the current Harvard Alumni Bulletin, Poet-Historian Peter Viereck introduces "Gaylord" Babbitt,* old George...
Another Pamela or, Virtue Still Rewarded, by Upton Sinclair. A California goat-girl resists almost all temptations and marries into the Big Rich; a retread of Richardson's 18th Century novel in which Sinclair gives his old aversion to wealth a fresh spin (TIME...
Another Pamela or, Virtue Still Rewarded, by Upton Sinclair. A California goat-girl resists almost all temptations and marries into the Big Rich; a retread of Richardson's 18th Century novel in which Sinclair gives his old aversion to wealth a fresh spin, mostly good-humored (TIME...