It's called 1. #DNC #VichyDemRATS 🔵🐀🔵 , 2. the #MilitaryIndustrialComplex which is raking it in🩸🤑🩸 even more than usual, 3. & approximately 1/3 of the population who are hard-core #Confederates / #Nazis.
Looking @ US history, the #AmericanDevolution was VERY predictable - & was by ⭐️ #SinclairLewis.
Directed by John Ford
Cast: Ronald Colman, Fay Wray, Myrna Loy
Special Feature:
1937 LUX RADIO THEATER with SPENCER TRACY & FAY WRAY
#BluRay #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected #WarnerArchive #SinclairLewis #RonaldColman #FayWray #MyrnaLoy
#ComingUpOnTCM
ELMER GANTRY (1960) Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Shirley Jones
Dir.: Richard Brooks 7:15 PM PT
A fast-talking traveling salesman becomes a fast-talking evangelist preacher.
2h 26m | Drama | TV-PG
#TCM #TCMParty #SinclairLewis
Celebrating the birthdays of these three authors today: Charles Dickens (1812), Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867), and Sinclair Lewis (1885)!
SEND THIS TO THE ONE YOU LOVE TODAY: “You are in every line I have ever read.”
#CharlesDickens #LauraIngallsWilder #SinclairLewis
February 7 is the birthday of #American author #SinclairLewis who we #quote and back with a picture of another recent #Fallbrook #sunset. If there’s something in this #quotograph that speaks to you, please feel free to share it with others.
#OTD #TDIH #February7, 1885: #BOTD: #HBD #SinclairLewis! #Authors #SocialCritics #Novelists #Playwrights #NobelPrizeLaureates #Literature #AmericanLiterature #LiteratureSky
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#OTD #TDIH #February7, 1885: #BOTD: #HBD #SinclairLewis! #Authors #SocialCritics #Novelists #Playwrights #NobelPrizeLaureates #Literature #AmericanLiterature #LiteratureSky
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"It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write."
✒ [Harry] #SinclairLewis, American writer and social critic (Nobel Prize in Literature 1930), was #BOTD 7 February 1885. #Literature
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis youtu.be/9U2tmgPHiA8 Buzz "Windrip" becomes President of the USA after his racist rant in MSG, then he wants to invade Mexico, Greenland... more prophetic than 1984, frightening masterpiece! It can happen here! #itcan'thappenhere #sinclairlewis #books
Sinclair Lewis' 1935 novel 'It Can't Happen Here', for which he used real contemporary and historical trends/proclivities in the U.S. to construct the accession of a would-be autocratic populist to power:
#Books #Politics #Autocracy
#SinclairLewis #ResistFascism
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"Bir nesil boyunca kötü yollara müsamaha gösteren bir ülke öyle zehirlenecektir ki, sonu asla iyi olmayacaktır."
#SinclairLewis
Amerika'lı yazarın aramızdan ayrılışının 75. yılında saygıyla..
Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951), Novelist, short story writer, playwright
Died #otd Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951), Novelist, short story writer, playwright, 75 years ago today #SinclairLewis life story...
"It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write."
✒ American writer, playwright, and Nobel Laureate (1930) #SinclairLewis passed away #OTD 10 January 1951. #Theatre #Literature
Kate Armstrong’s remark about #SinclairLewis reminded me of his vision of a #dystopian #US and a sanctuary #Canada in #ItCan’tHappenHere. I included it in my piece about how Canada figures in #American #dystopias, written in ‘24 but still painfully relevant.
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They're all becoming that though and it was long predicted.
From It Can't Happen Here: "...the worst Fascists were they who disowned the word 'Fascism' and preached enslavement to Capitalism under the style of Constitutional and Traditional Native American Liberty." #SinclairLewis
Many writers took issue with these ideas of masculinity. In 1927, #HLMenken (d.1956) ridiculed them in “The American Mercury”. #SinclairLewis (d.1951) lampooned them in “Elmer Gantry”. #ErnestHemingway (d.1961) condemned them in “A Farewell to Arms”.
My oh my, at last I've finished #MainStreet. Story didn't feel out of place, despite being written in the 1920s - very much Real Housewives vibe but set in small towns 🤣. I usually enjoy #SinclairLewis, but this one took more effort (& a lot of bevvies).
#Rotterdam #Utrecht #booksky #booksandbeer
⭐️ #SinclairLewis imagined an American version of the rise of #fascism in Europe. His predictions didn’t come true then, but seem eerily familiar now." l.smartnews.com/p-6CCdzULS/m...
Reading a small town americana tale while traversing quaint 🇧🇪 towns feels a bit off. New goal: finish #MainStreet quickly so I can hit up some used bookshops for a new read.
#booksky #SinclairLewis #BEL #fiction
controversial a play to open, and Republicans charged that the date for the show's mass opening had been selected to help the Democrats in an election year.
#WPA #FederalTheatreProject #WPA #theatre #TheatreThursday #SinclairLewis #ItCantHappenHere ‘
#OTD in 1936 - nationwide
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Poster for the stage adaptation of #SinclairLewis' novel *It Can't Happen Here*, October 27, 1936, at the Lafayette Theater a Detroit Federal Theater production
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#FederalArtProject #Poster Division #ItCantHappenHere #WPA #FederalTheatreProject
Back side of Nobel prize. A gold medal with figures dressed in loose robes and with laurel crowns, one seated and a standing figure playing lure. There are words in a non-English language around the edge.
Front side of Nobel prize, with a bust in profile labeled Alfr. Nobel
A few years ago I saw the #NobelPrize of #SinclairLewis, the guy who wrote “It Can’t Happen Here.” Turns out, it can.
⭐️ #SinclairLewis called over 1/2 a century ago.
💀🇺🇸💀 And the 2025 #rollingcoup continues both unabated & escalating weekly into its #military phase and on the precipice of #martiallaw. #DC #Chicago #Portland #theenemywithin #militaryoccupation
⭐️ #SinclairLewis called over 1/2 a century ago.
💀🇺🇸💀 And the 2025 #rollingcoup continues both unabated & escalating weekly into its #military phase and on the precipice of #martiallaw. #DC #Chicago #Portland #theenemywithin #militaryoccupation
⭐️ #SinclairLewis called over 1/2 a century ago.
💀🇺🇸💀 And the 2025 #rollingcoup continues both unabated & escalating weekly into its #military phase and on the precipice of #martiallaw. #DC #Chicago #Portland #theenemywithin #militaryoccupation
