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...critics like Upton Sinclair were quick to remind America that industrialization did not create a rosy, costless modernity. Children exploited in factories, unsafe working conditions, shoddy products and questionable business practices-all these accusations, and more, fostered debate and critical examination of the new cities thriving on mechanization...
Where is today's Upton Sinclair? He's not writing articles in Time about the dangers of RSI. Repetitive stress injuries threaten debilitating pain to an entire generation raised with keyboards from practically the moment of birth...
...that could come straight out of P.G. Wodehouse: Toupie, Winaretta, Honey, Budge...and an apparently endless succession of Violets. But Hall's wide network of personal and professional acquaintances also included many of the period's most famous feminists, suffragettes, and publicly visible lesbians-- such as the novelist May Sinclair, the composer Dame Ethel Smythe, and the Paris-based painter Romaine Brooks. Her literary acquaintances were similarly eminent (and, in many cases, similarly "deviant"): Hall's partner Una Troubridge first translated the sexually daring French author Colette's works into English; Hall and the English playwright Noel Coward wrote each...
...Bolshevik, which I am not. Now I notice that you call the Searchlight on Congress a Ku Klux Klan organ, which it is not. The Searchlight on Congress has nothing to do with the Klan. You have, since it appears that you are supporting the Klan Kandidate Koolidge. UPTON SINCLAIR Pasadena, Calif...
...unsuccessfully to challenge Georgia's food-disparagement law. If such laws had existed in the 1960s, environmentalists say, people would have been afraid to criticize the pesticide DDT, which was considered safe until it was proved to cause cancer and then banned in the U.S. "Going back to Upton Sinclair and The Jungle, a free and open discourse about food safety has been critical," says Lawrie Mott, a senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council and one of the authors of the Alar report. "With each of the major debates, we have seen reforms emerge...