Steinbeck

[ stahyn-bek ]

/ ˈstaɪn bɛk /

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noun

John (Ernst)

[urnst], /ɜrnst/, 1902–68, U.S. novelist: Nobel Prize 1962.

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Steinbeck said people are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside.
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They don’t belong to a species “clever enough to split the atom but not clever enough to live in peace with itself,” as Steinbeck put it.
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In one scene, Steinbeck meets a farmer and they talk about the Nixon-Kennedy election.
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I rustled through my bag for Steinbeck and woke Murphy in the process.
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The Washington Post followed up with an op-ed on the “Recession Only Steinbeck Could Love.”
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Steinbeck, too, seemed to think that a sort of economic reckoning was close at hand when he invented the Joads in late 1938.
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But often Steinbeck was traveling across the western U.S., with no good fishing or foraging to be had.
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Boycott herself decamped early on, smitten by an American visitor to London, John Steinbeck IV, son of the Nobelist in literature.
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British Dictionary definitions for Steinbeck

Steinbeck

/ (ˈstaɪnbɛk) /

noun

John (Ernst). 1902–68, US writer, noted for his novels about agricultural workers, esp The Grapes of Wrath (1939): Nobel prize for literature 1962

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