Word: upton
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...Upton Sinclair has included my husband, W. E. Woodward, in his dazzling list of writers who traveled "to their graves by the alcoholic highway [March 28]." My husband . . . was one week short of 76 years of age when he died, and the death certificate gives as the cause arteriosclerosis, cardio-vascular disease, in other words, old age. To that I would add overwork. Upton Sinclair's family history is so tragic that it is natural for him to think that anyone who takes a drink is an alcoholic. And while we are about it, neither Dreiser nor Sherwood Anderson...
From his uproarious retirement in California, aging (76) Author Upton (The Jungle) Sinclair, long one of America's loudest social consciences, took an ad in New Republic magazine to thunder a special plea. Sinclair, a lifelong teetotaler, was trying to unearth "a publisher who believes in abstention." In a "terrible but rigidly truthful" book titled Enemy in the Mouth, Abstainer Sinclair had "told the tragic stories of 50 alcoholic writers." Their suicide rate was ten times the U.S. norm, their lives 15 years less than the average span. After mentioning four dead drunkards in his own family (including...
...Shall we follow Dartmouth College and Brown University into the abyss of submission to local provincial whim? Or shall we stand firm with the rest of the Ivy League, as national institutions, in adhering to Eastern Standard Time? Waiter L. McLean '56, Timothy D. Eilard '56, Edward K. L. Upton '56, Alan D. Lourle '56, Charles S. Lipson '54, and David J. Dreyer...
Some of the most exciting novels about American industry have been written by those who liked it least. In the pages of Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser or Upton Sinclair, industry is a jungle inferno of grab and stab. But behind the social bias is the magnetic pull of wheat, or rail roads, or oil, and what it means to work with and around the sources of American industrial power. Author Victor White has put some of this magnetism without the bias into Peter Domanig in America. Where he falls short of the earlier models is in making his hero...
Your issue of March 8 contains a letter from Upton Sinclair . . . Since I happen to be his first wife, I find his account quite inaccurate, but I am well aware that Mr. Sinclair knows everything and that he is always right . . . The unhappy incidents to which he refers occurred some 43 years ago. I had hoped that in these intervening years he would develop some qualities of compassion and humility...