| 单词 | Sinclair Lewis |
| 例句 | There was a sign in Sauk Centre all right: “Birthplace of Sinclair Lewis.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, I just want to see it. Sinclair Lewis came from there.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z This feat requires what the early-twentieth-century American writer Sinclair Lewis called a “willingness to sift the sanctified lies,” a chore that is hard enough when the “lie” is trivial. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The sculpture was a prop in a 1919 Greenwich Village production of "Hobohemia," Sinclair Lewis' satirical play about American horror at unconventional lifestyles. LACMA landed Kirchner's 'Dancer With Necklace' through skill, happenstance 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z You could say that Sinclair Lewis spent his life taking an inventory of America. The Novelist Who Saw Middle America as It Really Was 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z Penguin also published Sinclair Lewis’s “It Can’t Happen Here,” about the rise of a demagogue, last Friday in Britain for the first time since 1935, “and we’re already on to our third printing.” George Orwell’s ‘1984’ Is Suddenly a Best-Seller 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Thank you for this wonderful article about Sinclair Lewis. Markov Chains, Sinclair Lewis and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Created between the eras of Sinclair Lewis and F. Scott Fitzgerald—a tumultuous period of aspiration, industrialization, social realignment and urban enterprise—these inventions were partly counter-images to the American dream. ‘The Art of Rube Goldberg’ Review: The Machinery of Humor 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z The main event of the 1930s in the life of Sinclair Lewis was his marriage to the famous journalist Dorothy Thompson. The Novelist Who Saw Middle America as It Really Was 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z He is on to book No. 36; the subject is his time with Sinclair Lewis. A Novelist Makes Good on His Promise to Sinclair Lewis 2011-01-26T16:25:50Z This is the centenary year of “Babbitt,” Sinclair Lewis’s best — and most misunderstood — novel. The Novelist Who Saw Middle America as It Really Was 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z CARPENTERIA, Calif. — The last time Barnaby Conrad saw Sinclair Lewis, three years after he served as Lewis’s personal secretary, they were at a bar in Paris and, by Mr. Conrad’s account, Lewis was thoroughly drunk. A Novelist Makes Good on His Promise to Sinclair Lewis 2011-01-26T16:25:50Z Sinclair Lewis published the novel as Adolf Hitler was making Germany great again, violating the Treaty of Versailles by establishing the Wehrmacht. Getting Close to Fascism with Sinclair Lewis’s “It Can’t Happen Here” 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z In these works by Mark Twain, Sinclair Lewis and Carson McCullers, she finds the essence of the American experience, filtered through narratives not about exceptionalism or fabulous success, but alienation, solitude and landscape. A celebration of American reading from the author of ‘Reading Lolita in Tehran’ “It Can’t Happen Here,” which Sinclair Lewis wrote in 1935, is the cautionary tale at its best: warning, chilling, clarifying … and, sadly, prescient. Trump is stranger than fiction: John Altman on writing thrillers today 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z Turning away from this unintelligible disaster, many seek enlightenment in literary and philosophical texts from the past, such as Hannah Arendt’s “The Origins of Totalitarianism,” George Orwell’s “1984,” and Sinclair Lewis’s “It Can’t Happen Here.” Václav Havel’s Lessons on How to Create a “Parallel Polis” 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z In high school, I read Sinclair Lewis’s best books and applied early decision to Yale because Lewis had gone there. A Lifetime of Reading Taught Min Jin Lee How to Write About Her Immigrant World 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z He also mastered every sort of adaptation, from his erotic, satirical take on Sinclair Lewis’s “Mantrap” to his erotic, tragic take on Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” Film: Pay Attention to the Man Behind the Camera 2010-02-27T03:00:00Z The writer is president of the Sinclair Lewis Society. Markov Chains, Sinclair Lewis and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Nobody was reading Sinclair Lewis six months ago, but Trump’s victory brought renewed attention to his novel about American fascism, “It Can’t Happen Here.” A Personal Foray Into the Long-Lost Pynchon Tapes 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z Books such as Edgar Lee Masters’s “Spoon River Anthology,” Sherwood Anderson’s “Winesburg, Ohio” and Sinclair Lewis’s “Main Street” quickly exemplified what has been called “the revolt from the village.” How the Midwest went from the idealized to the derided 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Lewis, and a letter from Tolkien to a University of Washington professor who wondered, years ago, whether the word “hobbit” was in any way influenced by Sinclair Lewis’ “Babbitt.” Harry Potter, Frodo, Cowardly Lion meet at EMP Museum 2013-04-22T19:45:25Z He plied her with gifts, paid her expenses, wrote plays for her, but she wanted to act, not be Mrs. Sinclair Lewis. The Novelist Who Saw Middle America as It Really Was 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z Like Sinclair Lewis's Elmer Gantry or Harry Crews's nameless gospel singer, this renegade advocate for a church without God is a kind of prototype Johnny Rotten. Peter Murphy's top 10 literary preachers 2013-01-16T11:12:26Z Sinclair Lewis called for 'a literature worthy of our vastness'. Don DeLillo wins PEN/Saul Bellow award 2010-09-27T11:26:00Z Eliot and Sinclair Lewis as a high modernist of the late 20th century. Perspective | Burrowing deep into many rabbit holes of Mark E. Smith and the Fall 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z Sinclair Lewis was never really known as “Sinclair,” his middle name. The Novelist Who Saw Middle America as It Really Was 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z A few years later, when the judges chose Lewis’s “Arrowsmith,” he refused to accept the prize — Sinclair Lewis had a thin skin. The Novelist Who Saw Middle America as It Really Was 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z Ms. Carbone also quotes writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis and Sherwood Anderson, who were all deeply preoccupied with the tensions between repression and liberation, corruption and idealism. Art Review: ?Youth and Beauty? at Brooklyn Museum - Review 2011-11-03T14:00:00Z This doesn’t cancel what’s come before, a solidly built and mercifully commentary-light fable, based on the Sinclair Lewis novel, about creating a religious act and taking it on the road. Signature Theatre’s ‘Elmer Gantry’ steps up to the melodic pulpit For Twin Farms, in Barnard, Vt., they suggest “Babbitt,” by Sinclair Lewis, who summered at the former residence with his wife, journalist Dorothy Thompson. When the hotel is the destination 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z One of the characters is reading a novel by Henry James; another keeps a copy of Sinclair Lewis with him. Television: On the Boardwalk, HBO Hangs Out With a New Mob 2010-09-03T19:34:00Z Yet his portraits were profoundly revealing: the knowing eyes of the poet Anna de Noailles, the glazed stare of the perennially pickled Sinclair Lewis, the burly forcefulness of a young Alexander Calder. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in June 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z No one by then was interested in Dorothy Thompson, or, for that matter, in Sinclair Lewis. The Novelist Who Saw Middle America as It Really Was 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z These political hacks are modern versions of Sinclair Lewis's slick con artist Elmer Gantry, cynically betraying a gullible public to amass personal power and wealth. America's theater of the absurd: Our politics has become an endless carnival 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z Sinclair Lewis famously warned that fascism would come to America wrapped in a flag and carrying cross. "We regret to inform you" that Donald Trump is cashing in on white America's death wish 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Sinclair Lewis noted that American fascism would be biblical and Southern. Trans activist and author: In a fascist America, LGBTQ folk will be "systematically targeted" 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z Known as the Lost Generation, writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, Edith Wharton, and John Dos Passos expressed their hopelessness and despair by skewering the middle class in their work. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z In 1935, our first American Nobel Prize for Literature winner, Sinclair Lewis, penned the novel “It Can’t Happen Here” about the fascist takeover of American society. Lies and misinformation: Cautionary tale 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z In ‘It Can’t Happen Here,’ Sinclair Lewis foresaw not only that a coup would come from the right, but that it would come clothed in populist rhetoric. Column: Trump's SPAC deal could mark a peak for a very scammy corner of Wall Street 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z You are, of course, playing off Sinclair Lewis' classic novel, "It Can't Happen Here." Could genocide really happen here? Leading scholar says America is on "high alert" 2021-07-11T04:00:00Z A prime example is “Elmer Gantry,” a controversial 1920s novel written by Nobel Laureate Sinclair Lewis. Monica West marks herself a writer to watch with debut novel ‘Revival Season’ 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z The writing of Sinclair Lewis, rather than expressing a defined disillusionment, was more influenced by the Progressivism of the previous generation. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The works of George Orwell, Ray Bradbury and Sinclair Lewis now appear as an understatement in a world marked by horrifying political horizons — a world in which authoritarian and medical pandemics merge. Dystopian plagues and fascist politics in the age of Trump: Finding hope in the darkness 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z A century ago, Sinclair Lewis predicted how America would botch the coronavirus crisis. Column: Inside Orange County's bizarre school-reopening vote 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z Like all great novelists, Sinclair Lewis was writing about his own time, and teaching us about our time too. Column: With 'Arrowsmith' (1925), a Nobel novelist foretold our mishandling of the coronavirus 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z His awkward pose with a Bible in front of a church after dispersing peaceful demonstrators with tear gas makes Sinclair Lewis’s Elmer Gantry seem like Moses. Opinion | Four years ago, I said we’d survive no matter who won. How wrong I was. 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Mostly, though, Shapiro disapproves of anyone — existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, socialist novelist Sinclair Lewis, feminist journalist and activist Gloria Steinem — who has challenged the dual supremacy of religious morality and pure reason. Review | A conservative prescription for modern social ills 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z She loved the Brontës, and her political awakening was stirred by Sinclair Lewis. At 82, Glenda Jackson Commands the Most Powerful Role in Theater 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation, said novelist Sinclair Lewis. Excerpts from recent South Dakota editorials 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z “Nothing Sacred” is Hecht’s Sinclair Lewis novel on film. The Great Hollywood Screenwriter Who Hated Hollywood 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z The American psyche seems to toggle between populism and plutocracy, between Sinclair Lewis and Ayn Rand. Opinion | There are so many reasons to turn against football. For now, resist the urge. 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z If Sinclair Lewis were alive today, he would find plenty of material in Mr. Trump and the people who continue to support his presidency. Opinion | If Trump Were a Fictional Character ... 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z Nearly 70 years after Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here, Roth insisted that it could – and he detailed precisely how it would feel if it did. ‘Savagely funny and bitingly honest’ – 12 writers on their favourite Philip Roth novels 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z It included work by literary greats such as Jack London, Dashiell Hammett and Sinclair Lewis. Time Inc. sells Sunset Magazine to Beverly Hills private equity firm Regent – LA Times 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z The Last Bookstore in downtown Los Angeles set up a display of dystopian literature after seeing heightened interest in books such as George Orwell’s “1984” and Sinclair Lewis’ “It Can’t Happen Here.” From 'Trump Survival Guide' to 'Hillbilly Elegy,' book publishing turns to all things political 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z And the guy looked at me and said, ‘I stopped caring about the Pulitzer after Sinclair Lewis.’ 'Wilson's' Daniel Clowes, patron saint of misfits and curmudgeons 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z One novelist who brought to life a fictional demagogue was Sinclair Lewis, the first American recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Opinion | If Trump Were a Fictional Character ... 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z Sinclair Lewis’s “It Can’t Happen Here,” the tale of a bumbling, repressive and democratically elected American fascist, has reached Amazon’s top 20. Opinion | A president who rarely reads has launched a book club for all of America 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z That person was not, as is often reported, Sinclair Lewis in his 1935 novel It Can’t Happen Here, a furious satire of the idea that American exceptionalism might inoculate it against fascism. 'It will be called Americanism': the US writers who imagined a fascist future 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z A voracious and eclectic reader, Leonard admires biographer Ron Chernow, novelist and playwright Sinclair Lewis and Charles Dickens, though he intends to continue writing La Crosse-centered non-fiction, with his current project focused on homelessness. Onalaska author scores with baseball book 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z In the week that Donald Trump was inaugurated as the president of the US, Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here was republished – the plot of which resonates with the rise of Trump. Prescient about the president: which writers can help us read Trump? 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z Liberals looking to feed their sense of alarm have been steered toward Hannah Arendt’s “The Origins of Totalitarianism,” Sinclair Lewis’ “It Can’t Happen Here” and Philip Roth’s “Plot Against America.” Books for the Trump era 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z It's as though Sinclair Lewis wrote the script for the GOP 2016 presidential election almost 100 years ago. Donald Trump, American Preacher 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z “IT CAN’T Happen Here” was a novel by the popular writer Sinclair Lewis published 80 years ago, during a time of deep troubles and with a presidential campaign looming. Our ‘solemn responsibility’ on Thanksgiving 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z In Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 novel It Can’t Happen Here a conservative southern politician is helped to the presidency by a nationally syndicated radio talk show host. It can still happen here: Donald Trump, Ben Carson and the “American fascists” among us 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z The arts piece offered creative types like Sinclair Lewis, Orson Welles and Jackson Pollock $42 a week. Film highlights art from Works Progress Administration 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z Butler leased part of a closed state-run school in this quaint north-central Minnesota community, best known for its famous son, Sinclair Lewis, the Nobel Prize-winning author. Troubled vets of all ages find comfort at refuge 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z My first scientific hero was Arrowsmith — the main character in the 1925 novel of the same name by Sinclair Lewis, which almost every medical student of my generation read. Q&A: Michael Bishop : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z The term and the concept were introduced in print by Sinclair Lewis in 1927 in his novel Elmer Gantry: "There were, in those parts and those days, not infrequent ceremonies known as 'shotgun weddings.'" How authors from Dickens to Dr Seuss invented the words we use every day 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z In “Elmer Gantry,” Sinclair Lewis’s satiric novel about a charlatan evangelist, the title character started his public life as a football star for a religious college. On Religion: Cultural Conflicts, Playing Out on the Football Field 2012-01-27T15:57:27Z Some of the satire in Sinclair Lewis's novel Main Street is excellent poetry. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z It's worthy of a novelistic expose by a modern Charles Dickens or Sinclair Lewis--Bleak House meets The Jungle. Microsoft's Courtside Competition 2010-05-21T10:00:00Z In Sinclair Lewis' 1922 novel Babbitt, the title character speaks triumphantly of the "sane standardization of stores, offices, streets, hotels, and newspapers throughout the United States." What Would Henry Luce Make of the Digital Age? 2010-04-08T17:00:00Z Sometimes, no doubt, they are like the one in Sinclair Lewis's Gopher Prairie; or they hardly outlast a season. One-Act Plays By Modern Authors To independent-minded farmers, who, as Sinclair Lewis had observed, jealously guarded the ability to escape the mill and turmoil of the city, this industrialization seemed the ultimate compromise. Frying Pan Farm Sinclair Lewis in Main Street describes concretely the routine of town life with its outward monotony and its inner zest. Introduction to the Science of Sociology In this book Sinclair Lewis adds a violent stroke to his growing picture of materialistic America. Glory of Youth If we can't run together, we of the same blood and of the same tongue," says Sinclair Lewis, to a literary club one June night, "let's give it up. Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 She remembered the words of Sinclair Lewis, from the book she was then translating. The Mantooth For example, there is something subtly troublesome to us in the remark that Sinclair Lewis made about Evelyn Scott's novel, "The Narrow House." Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned But they, and younger men such as Coningsby Dawson and Sinclair Lewis, have gone on into the sunny hayfields of popular authorship and said nothing. Shandygaff It remained for a novel in the customary form, Sinclair Lewis's Main Street, to bring to hundreds of thousands the protest against the village which these books brought to thousands. Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) It is significant that these words preceded by only a few months the publication of Sinclair Lewis's "Main Street," which illustrates in a big and popular way the point in question. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 Most of the matter strictly appropriate to a Preface you may find, if you so elect, in the Foreword addressed to Sinclair Lewis. Figures of Earth Only rarely is the object of Anderson's stories social verisimilitude, or the "photographing" of familiar appearances, in the sense, say, that one might use to describe a novel by Theodore Dreiser or Sinclair Lewis. Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life Sinclair Lewis knew Babbitt as Babbitt could never know either himself or Sinclair Lewis. Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few Observations Sinclair Lewis Spoon River Anthology was a collection of poems, Winesburg, Ohio was a collection of short stories, The Anthology of Another Town was a collection of anecdotes. Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) In Sinclair Lewis' "Main Street," the best novel ever made about America as a nation of villagers, the heroine, Carol Kennicott, has this to say to someone sentimentalizing about maternity. The Glands Regulating Personality He cannot demonstrate it, any more than Mr. Sinclair Lewis can demonstrate that he has told the whole truth about Main Street. Public Opinion And therefore in England, which also was not curious about Main Streets, and where the popular idea that Sinclair Lewis seized upon was not prevalent, the book has had only a moderate success. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism Those who catch on, like Sinclair Lewis in "Main Street," are men who have succeeded in projecting definitely what great numbers of other people were obscurely trying to say inside their heads. Public Opinion And he, like the forerunners of Sinclair Lewis, has a quarrel with the public. Public Opinion |
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