Word: young
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conant has broken the back of the English department: four of its most brilliant young men must leave. He has been only a little less cruel with the Government department, where two assistant professors have been crated for the dreary trip to the hinterlands...
This week Dos Passos published a book that bids fair to cook his goose for good, as far as the Communists are concerned. Adventures of a Young Man, first of an intended series of contemporary portraits, traces the evolution, in the '203 and '305, of a middle-class radical. Sandy-haired, grey-eyed, idealistic Glenn Spotswood was brought up to be a Christian Gentleman. But his father was liberal enough to get fired from Columbia University for opposing U. S. entry into the War. Other radicalizers in Glenn's young manhood were a good-humored rebel chum...
ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG MAN-John Dos Passos-Harcourf, Brace...
...readers will deny that Dos Passos has dramatized his latest political views in a racy story, or that they are sincere. But his characters are onedimensional. In the career of a novelist, Adventures of a Young Man reads like a minor pamphlet...
...CASE OF THE CRUMPLED KNAVE-Anthony Boucher-Simon & Schuster ($2). Young Fergus O'Breen, with the aid of Colonel Theodore Rand, U. S. A. (Ret.), nails the crafty killer of a wealthy California chemist-inventor...