Word: edwardia
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Sempiternal Edwardia. Thus the man whom Playwright S. N. Behrman came to know as a friend in 1952, when Max was almost 80, was merely biologically old. Essentially, he had not changed for more than four decades: he had not retreated to the past; he had simply refused to leave...
Behrman found him doodling caricatures of Balfour, Oscar Wilde and Henry James as if he inhabited a kind of sempiternal Edwardia. He also found him talking. Apart from copious quotations from Max's own writings and a generous sprinkling of his superlative caricatures, Portrait of Max is a graciously spliced tape recording of the twilight talk of a minor, but finely mannered, man of letters...