Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oliver family, whose fortune once totted up to $40,000,000, is still the biggest individual owner of the company, but management has passed to more adept hands. President now is red-cheeked, husky Cal Sivright, who helped Oliver beat Depression by developing the first streamlined tractor. Well liked-except for a habit of asking to see employes' work sheets-he drives points home by banging on the arm of his chair. So characteristic is the gesture that the firm has taken pictures of it for posterity...
Between chapters Author Steinbeck speaks directly to the reader in panoramic essays on the social significance of the Oakies' story. Burning tracts in themselves, they are not a successful fiction experiment. In them a "social awareness" outruns artistic skill. Steinbeck is a writer, still, of great promise. But this novel's big audience of readers will likely find in it one of the most impassioned and exciting books of the year...
Seattle. Author Leighton writes woodenly about Birmingham, bitingly about Omaha, lyrically about Seattle. He finds the pioneer spirit, dead in Omaha, still flickering in Seattle; in the talk of the loggers on the Skidroad at Yesler Way, in the logging camps, the history of the wobblies and the Weyerhaeuser fortune, in the remark of a Seattle housewife: "I have got to go over to Olympia tomorrow to help put pressure on the governor...
...least a dozen prejudices: He hates musical comedies, trilogies, "female legs in the daily news," simplified spelling, contact as a verb, big books ("as depressing as soggy porridge"). His own big book runs to 986 pages, weighs 2⅝ Ib. Now 74, white-haired, deeply tanned, still vigorous, though saddened by the recent death of his wife, William Lyon Phelps is retired from Yale and Scribner's, contributes a column to the Rotarian, picks an annual list of "best books," writes few book reviews. But his influence is by no means extinct. Still one of the most popular...
...present sculling coach is an example of the coach of the new type, a year-round position, for which the plan calls. His name is as widely known in his sporting world as that of any competitive coach. And the champion games with Yale, with intensive coaching before them still continues the intercollegiate thrill for those deserving it. And finally, let it be remembered that athletics are moulded for the undergraduates, not for the coaches...