The Wayward Bus, by John Steinbeck, is one of Steinbeck's lesser novels, but its clear writing and solid character delineation testify that second-rank Steinbeck is still very good writing indeed. Originally published in 1947, this novel contains...
SEAMUS McGRAW, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 10-19-1993 WAYWARD SCHOOL BUS INJURES 7 -- DRIVER OF EMPTY COACH CHARGED WITH DWI By SEAMUS McGRAW, Staff Writer Date: 10-19-1993, Tuesday Section: NEWS Edition: 3 Star, Also in 2 Star P, 2 Star B,...
Just when you think the world has gone totally selfish, somebody does something to make you think again. Yesterday, it was Andrew M. Barr. Like thousands of readers of The Post, he had seen the account of a busload of teenagers from...
"The Wayward Bus" may confidently be taken as a twentieth-century parable on the state of man. Although Steinbeck is not quite so insistent on his moral as Jonathan Swift, the underlying conception in what he has to say was succinctly summarized by the King of Brobdingnag in "Gulliver's Travels": "I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.�...
