Word: brinnin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...THIRD ROSE (427 pp.)-John Malcolm Brinnin- Atlantic-Little, Brown...
Renouncing Babbitry for Babel, Gertrude Stein was a kind of saint to some and a stunt to others. She belongs not to the ages, but an age-the '20s. Fresh from his last safari (Dylan Thomas in America), Poet-Critic John Malcolm Brinnin goes in search of this Abominable Snowoman of modern letters. What he brings back is not startling, but it is a biographically complete if critically indulgent account of the concentric odyssey of Gertrude Stein, of whom it might be said: in her beginning was her end, because she was all middle...
...William James's favorite Schnatterer and roamed the classrooms in uncorseted bliss ("She always seemed to like her own fat," a friend later said). She also experimented in what came to be known as automatic writing. This may have inspired her incantatory rhythms and inane repetitions, though Author Brinnin bristles at the thought...
...question that has fueled his funeral pyre for the last four years. The argument ranges from Fellow Poet Kenneth Rexroth's ardently silly blast at U.S. conformity ("Who killed the bright-headed bird? . . . You killed him in your God damned Brooks Brothers suit") to Fellow Poet John Malcolm Brinnin's vulgarly detailed but more plausible notion (Dylan Thomas in America) that drink and lechery did Dylan in. Caitlin blames America, too, in a different...
...conference on the "Uses of Literary Criticism" has been scheduled for Wednesday, July 24 at Sanders Theater at 8:30 p.m., with Elizabeth Hardwick as moderator, Newton Arvin, Saul Bellow, John Malcolm Brinnin, and Denber Lindly. "Dear Liar," the letters of George Bernard Shaw, has been scheduled for Wednesday, July 31, at Kresge Auditorium at 8:30 p.m., to be read by Jerome Kilty and Cavada Humphrey...