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...developing the art of seducing the customer out of his change-it ranges from a hatchick's friendly pat on the shoulder to the Greenwich Village waiter who pursued a nontipper out into the street crying: "No tip! No tip!"-employees around the country have by now established their own argot. A nontipper is universally called a "stiff," while in Boston he is also a "fishball." in New Orleans a "frog," in Seattle a "mossback," in Kansas City a "clutch," in Chicago a "snake" or a "lemon." Someone free with money is a "live one" ,or a "mark...
...hero of The Forger is Rufus Griffin, a Greenwich Village painter in his late 20s who makes poor money and worse puns ("All nudes is good nudes"). He falls in love with a rich man's girl friend and, to keep her in caviar and champagne, starts forging old masters. But the caviar turns to ashes in a psychologized unhappy ending. Most self-quest novels are assembled with interchangeable parts, and The Forger can be assembled and disassembled rather rapidly. Part 1 (colloquy): "What do you want out of life, Rufe?" Part 2 (ecstasy...
This is the latest exposition of U.S. fiction's post-Socratic theorems: Find Thyself and Express Thyself. From Madison Avenue to Greenwich Village, from suburbia to Sunset Boulevard, the heroes of unnumbered novels are digging for their treasured psyches. In most instances, there is no treasure worth unearthing, all of which leads to another popular precept: Pity Thyself...
...prefer cappuccina to scotch, you're in luck; a number of coffe houses have opened up in the last several years. Charles St., with three houses within as many blocks, bids fair to compete with Greenwich Village's Macdougal St. There is folk singing at Golden Vanity, in Kenmore Square, and at The Loft, on Charles St. Probably some of the others will have entertainers during the summer, but you should check before you go. Some of the others are the Turk's Head, Cafe Yana, The Place, and the Gallery. Charles St. is no North Beach but the prices...
...what reads almost like a Behavior Manual for Modern Poets, Clem drifts from Acapulco to Paris to New York-wenching, wiving, divorcing, insulting his friends and occasionally scribbling. During his final, alcoholic collapse he sits in a Greenwich Village bar playing the literary clown to agents and publishers, sexual adventuresses and adoring disciples. He is found one morning, overcome by escaping gas, in the apartment of an admirer who lies sprawled nude on the sofa. The girl dies immediately, but Clem lingers several days-time enough for the "trooping animals," with "a brutish anxiety...