Word: hangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this article out and hang it on your floor underneath your carpet-so you can study it everyday. Extra copies 10 cents a dozen. Send them to your cousins at Yale, Princeton, and Alcatraz-The Radcliffe News...
Collier's tales are much like those of Lord Dunsany (Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens). But his taste is less for the dewy groves of dancing pixies than for the chasms and black alleyways where fiends hang out. Nor is this the madness of James Thurber (The Owl in the Attic, Fables for Our Time), smelling of neurosis, manic depression and similar 20th-Century ills. Collier offers a fuller-blooded evil often conjured up with appropriate 17th-Century English suggesting the grimmer scenes of King Lear. From that play he plucked titles for two former books: Defy...
Unlike the pictures that hang on the walls of other Manhattan galleries, 460 Park Avenue's portraits are not for sale. They are samples. Each sample is by a different portrait painter. Most of 460 Park Avenue's clients are bank presidents, business executives, hotel managers, or fond family folk who want a portrait of husband, wife or child. By looking over Mmes. Shaw & Duplaix's samples, they can decide which artist is their dish. Prices range from $50 (for a drawing job by Portraitist Hester Merwin) to $7,000 (for a high-class likeness, John Sargent...
Although the scheme has not had time to prove its mettle, it does satisfy a crying need which was once supplied by the now illegal commercial tutoring schools. The guidance which will be given to the Freshmen will help them get the hang of studying for a difficult examination rather than have them spend useless hours of reading unimportant details...
Such is the flavor of My Name is Aram. Effortless, delicate and slightly boozy, the little tales carry a sense of comic-poetic anarchy whose only name is Saroyan. For those who get the hang of it, there are several solid miracles of literary slack-wire walking. There is less of the brassiness and tinhorn rhetoric with which he usually destroys his effects. There is more self-effacing attention to business than usual. Saroyan will always be a question of taste; but another book or two, and he may also be one of the best and most original writers alive...