Word: upton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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MAMMONART?Upton Sinclair?Published by himself ($2.00). Homer was a hanger-on, Pindar a pressagent, Æschylus a 100% Athenian, Raphael a pampered pet of popes. Dryden was a "bedroom" playwright, Coleridge a reactionary sensualist, Balzac a predatory careerist...
Every so often, the editors of The New Student (intercollegiate newssheet, of the liberal persuasion) find time and money to supplement their weekly with a section written around a single idea. For the sake of journalism (and Upton Sinclair*), they usually "jazz" the idea. They are young men, seeking a young audience...
Laughter. The first generation of suffragists "got the bad eggs." said Mrs. Upton. "The next got?just eggs. All we got was stuck-up noses. ... I remember somebody asking me once if it was not a terrible sacrifice being a suffragist and losing all my social position, and I replied that it wasn't all gone because I had dined two nights before with the President of the United States...
...mere fact that Mr. Upton Sinclair's opera have one and all been decorated with the well deserved and universal Order of the Razzberry has in no wise constrained that gentleman from appearing in his annual...
...Upton Sinclair's exhaustive study of the art of propaganda has at length caused him to turn the medal over, and examine the propaganda of art. In his newest book, "Mammonart," he champions the thesis that since the dawn of human history, the path of success for a writer or artist has been through the glorification of the ruling classes, and through teaching their subjects and slaves to stand in awe of them. With magisterial rod in hand, Mr. Sinclair proceeds to classify as evil all those writers who consciously or unconsciously voice the propaganda of the ruling classes...