Word: upton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scene is a a small garret occupied by young man, product of hard working parents and a Public High School. His name is Leo and he is a work. In the room with Leo are his three roommates--Upton, Francis, and William. The latter three are "Andover men." The radio is playing...
...Upton--Really, Leo, a modicum of good taste...
...Upton--Gasp...
Freud to Fission. The rest of the book is a wife's-eye view of Upton Sinclair's career, written in a mincing, exclamation-pointed style that sustains the author's fond boast of having been the first student ever to gain a grade of 100 in English at the Mississippi State College for Women. Though Mary Sinclair loyally supports her husband's politics, there is a recurring refrain that goes something like: "I told Uppie not to do it, but he wouldn't listen and so he was arrested again." Sinclair fought John...
...will the world get along without Upton Sinclair? Mary wondered about that once. But, said the Sinclair doctor reassuringly: "You should be wondering how Heaven could get along with...