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...first U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals this week declared unconstitutional a Massachusetts law that had allowed the Holy Cross Armenian Catholic Church in Harvard Square to block Grendel's Den restaurant from obtaining a liquor license...
...interesting case. Saroyan was born in Fresno, son of Armenian refugees who fled the Turkish massacres at the beginning of the century. He knew the wrench of separation and the insular poverty of California's little Armenias: Saroyan's early years were spent in an orphanage after his father died and his mother had to work full time. Like the young bringer of good news and bad in his screenplay turned novel The Human Comedy, Saroyan began his working life as a telegraph boy. When his short story The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze...
DIED. William Saroyan, 72, prolific Armenian-American novelist, playwright and short story writer who strove to convey the romance and vitality of American life in such works as the 1939 Pulitzer-prize winning play, The Time of Your Life, and the 1943 novel, The Hu man Comedy; of cancer; in Fresno, Calif. (see THEATER...
...gave him some purchase on fame. It tied up with his other harmless fibs-that he had studied under Kandinsky, for instance. Above all, it solidified the impression of a romantic outsider. Henceforth, Achilles the Bitter would be seen in New York (or so he naively hoped) as an Armenian Childe Harold, a creature of exalted but conjectural origins, with no baggage but the authority of his Europeanness, no passport but modernism itself...
...unfolding rather than a plagiarizing apprenticeship followed by a sudden "second birth" into originality. One is grateful to see the painter whole, but one wearies of sentences like, "The drawings are superb, yet the paintings that followed ... are even more extraordinary." These canonizations of the Self-Martyred Master (an Armenian-American Van Gogh, in effect) have an anesthetic effect. One senses that Gorky's hesitations and failures were as essential to the man's identity as his real successes. Nobody could expect that in so short and racked a life, Gorky could have resolved all the tensions...