Tag Archives: Sinclair Lewis

humdinger jimmy: reckless pedestrian years

Posted on October 29, 2012 by Dave

The beauty of being born again is that you get to wipe the slate clean. Its ingenious, very much in the spirit that de Toqueville described America on his visit early in the nineteenth-centiry as the land of constant personal … Continue reading →

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father of the beats

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Dave

There was decidedly an air of wildness about him….At first Lindsay attracted little attention. Then, in 1913,as his poetic scope widened, he began intoning his verse in ragtime rhythm, in what he called “Higher Vaudeville” presentations. He was convinced that … Continue reading →

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thigh-bone beating on a tin-pan gong…

Posted on September 9, 2012 by Dave

1922…People were dubious about spending twenty-five cents a ticket just to see a poet, but then they tended to be somewhat softened, mollified, by the fact that Lindsay also delivered temperance lectures which appeased the many dry-fanatics at the time. … Continue reading →

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child’s utopia

Posted on July 19, 2012 by Dave

It was founded in the mid 1930′s and really reflected the John Dewy “progressive education” ethos of a liberal education; the progressive critique of the conventional assumptions about learning, pedagogical principles and economic thinking as well as religion. The Burgess … Continue reading →

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the myth is not invulnerable

Posted on July 14, 2012 by Dave

Aesthetics and economics. As with the farmer, so it generally went with the small businessperson: dealer, salesman, contractor,and small merchant. Their income may be considered handsome when compared to past standards, but they are, collectively, a group that has to … Continue reading →

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on ole’ boot hill

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Dave

Where the difference between the good guys and the less good guys was sort of blurry. Boot Hill, Tombstone AZ and the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. The times were a changin’ and America was pushing westward. Like in Peckinpah’s … Continue reading →

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peter pumpkinhead

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Dave

…”Let him jump so that he will fill the sacks along his back bone with air and then he can not go deep to die”….”I want to see him and to touch him and to tell him he is my … Continue reading →

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take off your hat when the hearse passes

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Dave

God always seems to be bumping into an atheist’s head in the most unexpected places. There was always Voltaire fessin’ up on his deathbed.His almost comic anti-semitism attributed to a repressed piety and faith. But, then he was always angling … Continue reading →

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one is too many: giants sailing from byzantium

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Dave

For all his genius,was one Gaudi enough for the world? Well, dim rooms and undulating walls in his apartment houses are a bit creepy to live in; which is essentially the criticism made by the followers of the International Modern … Continue reading →

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Heresy on the Guest list: too darn hot

Posted on February 20, 2011 by Dave

Heresy has always had many faces. The classic division has always followed the Voltaire pattern of speaking truth to power in order to be absorbed within the establishment, and accept the sacraments. Heresy has traditionally been seen as four faced: … Continue reading →