Word: fumblers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...magic act with two magicians, and an act which offers the combined efforts of a fumbler, jugglers, and an unicyclist may well be the high points of the show...
...houses, cold rooms in Manhattan or San Francisco, pawning his typewriter, finding a little brown snake in a park, being kept after school because he had laughed at the teacher, a bum who was still too dignified to sell dirty postcards. At times he seems as inept an introspective fumbler as Sherwood Anderson at his silliest, but at others he gets nearer the gist of the matter than Anderson at his most inspired. Though Saroyan has a contempt for cleverness, literariness, his searching simplicity sometimes accomplishes cleverness' own job. Saroyan sometimes uses the impressionistic patter...