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...lecturers who read Partisan Review for laughs. All things considered, it was not a very promising subject for a movie, but Director Sidney Lumet took a crack at it anyway-jettisoning most of Markfield's literary humor in favor of Jewish situation comedy. The result, called Bye Bye Braverman, has a lot to talk about, and nothing much...
Whisky & Bier. As the novel begins, the intellectual quartet finds itself bereft. Leslie Braverman, a bona fide writer who published more than 100 articles that were read and discussed, has just died of a coronary at 40, and satellites are in a panic. For Leslie held perpetual open house, fed them ideas and patiently listened to theirs. He had integrity-"the way some people have b.o.," remembers one of the survivors emotionally. Leslie's wife also made herself available-and not just for talk...
EUGENE HIGGINS-Braverman, 23 East 67th. Oils, watercolors, drawings and etchings by a minor U.S. romantic (1874-1958). Like his artistic forerunner, France's Jean Francois Millet, whom he admired and imitated, Higgins painted somber configurations of the lowly-peasants, tramps, and refugees. Through...
From Massachusetts: David Axelrod of Lowell and Great Barrington; Sheldon C. Binder of Eliot and Boston; Richard Braverman of Laverett and Brookline; Gerald Y. Chin of Adams and Boston; George B. Doyle of Winthrop and Worcester; Thomas Ehrlich of Lowell and Cambridge; Louis H. Fingerman of Winthrop and Dorchester; Robert M. Gargill of Adams and West Roxbury; Ruber F. Gittes of Adams and Melrose; Arthur C. Gossard of Kirkland and Quincy; William T. Green Jr. of Lowell and Belmont; William S. Kaden of Adams and Chestnut Hill; Robert D. Richardson 3rd of Eliot and Concord...
Highlighting this generally excellent cast are Tom Clancy, as Shem the Penman, Sarah Braverman, as Anna Livia, and Ed Chamberlain and Jac Rogers in a variety of roles. Ken Donahue was entirely enjoyable as everyman H.C.E., although as a result of the adaptation his major function throughout much of the play was to sleep atop the coffin. Joseph Mitchell lent delicacy at appropriate moments in several parts, especially during the dream dramas of H. C. Earwicker which occupied most of the second half of the production, and which were in many ways the most purely entertaining part of the evening...