Biography EssayFor readers familiar with his work in the 1920s and 1930s, John Dos Passos's public image seemed clearly defined. His friends and colleagues were expatriate writers such as Ernest Hemin...
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The reputation of the American novelist John Roderigo Dos Passos (1896-1970) is based chiefly on his early work, especially the trilogy "U.S.A."John Dos Passos was born in Chicago on Jan. 14, 1896, th...
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For readers in the 1930s and 1940s the career of John Dos Passos had its puzzling aspects, but the image of the man seemed to possess a certain clarity. He was, according to the dust jackets, "Chicago...
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John Roderigo Dos Passos, social and political chronicler, was born John Roderigo Madison in a Chicago hotel. His father, John Randolph Dos Passos, a prominent attorney, and his mother, Lucy Madison, ...
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The U.S. and Europe headed toward a compromise solution Friday at the U.N. climate conference, breaking a deadlock over how ambitious the goal should be in negotiating future cutbacks in global war...
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Remember Julianne Moore’s heartbreaking turn as a 50's housewife in The Hours? Her character’s style—embodying “the seamless appearances and the tony aspirations of midcen...
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The 1950’s were certainly not the best of times for a young artist to head to Paris. Europe was recovering from the devastation of the Second World War. From the standpoint of art,...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
PLAYING TO THE CROWD: TALK ABOUT WARMING (The New York Times,
New York)
President Bush has been feeling the heat on global warming. He's ...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bleak "report card" on
global warming's Arctic impact released Wednesday found less
ice, hotter air and dying wildlife, and stressed that what
happens around the North Pol...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
THE SCIENTISTS SPEAK (The New York Times, New York)
The world's scientists have done their job. Now it's time for
world leaders, starting...
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The Abstract Impulse: Fifty Years of Abstraction at the National Academy, 1956-2006 examines one museum’s still evolving and complicated relationship with an idiom practically everyone else t...
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John Roderigo Dos Passos
John (Roderigo) Dos Passos
Bali climate talks head toward deal
