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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the twentieth century and the war came a closer approach to comprehension. Sinclair Lewis, Dreiser, Mencken, furnished blocks for the building; but none was sufficient architect to complete the edifice. Others were sidetracked, as Irving Babbitt to Humanism, Thornton Wilder to Catholicism, Krutch, Jeffers, and Faulkner to Pessimism. Hemingway tried to dodge the problem of values in bullfights and drink without success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 11/1/1933 | See Source »

...Tiffany Thayer were a great deal better writer, this is the kind of book he might write. Phantasmagoria laid in a wilder California than mortal eye has seen. The Flutter of an Eyelid promises more than it performs, but puts on a garishly entertaining show. Says Author Brinig, through one of his characters: "It occurs to me that a writer ought to have both vegetables and flowers in his books. He ought to have everything in his books. The old idea of being one thing at a time, a romanticist or a realist, hardly fits in with the times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jesus in California | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

...lucid as a primer's, should have gathered such a lurid reputation as murderess of the King's English. Such readers should remember that in Alice B. Toklas Authoress Stein is on her best behavior. If they are sufficiently curious to look up some of her wilder work, this is the kind of thing they may find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stem's Way | 9/11/1933 | See Source »

...domain larger than Belgium, wilder than Abyssinia, more visited than Rome, colder than Moose Factory and hotter than Tophet, a fabulously scenic empire scattered over half a continent, quietly changed hands last week. In Washington, Secretary of the Interior Ickes announced that effective Aug. 9, Arno Berthold Cammerer would be the third director of the National Park Service. His job: to introduce the U. S. people to the grandeur of their own amazing outdoors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Director of Outdoors | 7/17/1933 | See Source »

Amos Niven Wilder, poet, brother of Novelist Thornton Niven Wilder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos Jun. 19, 1933 | 6/19/1933 | See Source »

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