Word: tortilla
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grapes of Wrath is the Oakies' saga. It is John Ernst Steinbeck's longest novel (619 pages) and more ambitious than all his others combined (Tortilla Flat, In Dubious Battle, Of Mice and Men, et al.). The publishers believe it is "perhaps the greatest modern American novel, perhaps the greatest single creative work this country has ever produced." It is not. But it is Steinbeck's best novel, i.e., his toughest and tenderest, his roughest written and most mellifluous, his most realistic and, in its ending, his most melodramatic, his angriest and most idyllic. It is "great...
Inevitable, apparently, to all such novels is the dash of Latin melodrama at the end. But the book is sharply written, sympathetic without being sentimental; and in conviction, if not in humor, it gains more than it suffers by comparison with Steinbeck's Tortilla Flat, its West Coast counterpart...
...insularity. His first move was to slash the price from 25? to 10? a copy. Second was to junk all purely literary features. He then divided the magazine into four general departments: Western Gardening, Western Homes, Western Foods (a Sunset All-Western Thanksgiving dinner included chilled papaya nectar, tortilla chips, spiced loquats and steamed persimmon pudding), and Western Travel...
...Tortilla Flat (adapted by Jack Kirkland; produced by Jack Kirkland & Sam H. Grisman). Critics, like partridges, should never be shot sitting. That this sportsmanlike principle still lingers on Broadway was evidenced last week...
...Last week at the Charles L. Morgan Galleries, Manhattanites enjoyed an exhibition of the best recent paintings by this prodigal son of the Mexican Renaissance. Composed in refinements of the squat, circular Maya forms, sophisticated, inventive, winning, to many a critic, Chariot's pictures of Mexican laborers and tortilla makers (see cut) were a welcome contrast to the present work of his old friends...