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...architecture of the poor"?by Greek villages, which he had visited, by Moorish souks, which he had not, but had studied in books. Most of all, he fell in love in with the walled, closed-in Arab garden, animated and cooled by the splash of a fountain or stilled by a pool, whose apotheosis he found in the marvelous intricacies of Spain's Alhambra...
Marvy is a substantial, pink-faced man with a sandy mustache and a booming voice. He has three Dutch Masters cigars and a ballpoint pen in the breastpocket of his suit. But it isn't hard to change the ballpoint to a fountain pen, erase a few facial lines and see him as a 25-year-old self-employed salesman, striding into a two-chair barber shop in some one-horse Minnesota town. "Keep up with the times," he would say, unpacking samples of Tiger Root and Pinaud's Lilac Vegetal. "Look to the future. Have a cigar...
some silver-fingered fountain steals the world...
...years ago. Rabbi Seymour Rosen was delighted to go to the gambling casino where Youngman was appearing to correct the oversight, and Tenor Jan Peerce was cantor. "Today," cracked Youngman, after reading his prescribed prayers in phonetic Hebrew, "I am a boy." Years ago, he insisted, "you got a fountain pen when you were bar mitzvahed. Now you get a computer." But the punch lines were watered with tears when the new kid in town tried to be serious before 300 friends. "Today," he concluded tearfully, "I am the proudest Jew in the world...
...write for a public," says Pritchett. "I write to clear my own mind, to find out what I think and feel." He pursues this Socratic labor seven days a week, nearly 52 weeks a year, writing with a fountain pen on sheets of strong, white paper that he holds on a pastry board. It has been his lap desk for 40 years...