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...between his plays and his most personal recollections, and to yearn for the respect that accrues to a creator who examines himself. His 21st Broadway play, which is still running, was Brighton Beach Memoirs, a depiction of life in Brooklyn in the 1930s in a lower-middle- class Jewish household much like his own. It won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award as best play, and was justly likened to Ah, Wilderness! and Our Town as a nostalgic celebration of lost family virtues. The show also made a star of Matthew Broderick; he won a Tony as the narrator...
Spock had a sheltered, hard-shell conservative upbringing in a solidly Republican household. He went to Andover, Yale, Yale Medical School and had switched to Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons before meeting his first Democrat. He says he was "absolutely flabbergasted" to find that university-educated people need not be Republicans. At Yale, he took up crew and rowed his way to a gold medal in the 1924 Chariots of Fire Olympics. The victory was "of enormous importance," he says, converting an overprotected mama's boy into a confident young...
...Anne has been asked to write the catalog for a new exhibit of the works of Caroline Watson (1864-1938), an American artist whose once lustrous reputation could now stand some repolishing. The job requires regular trips to Manhattan and periods of peace and quiet about the Foster household. Michael flies off to France, and the first sitter Anne tries turns out to be churlish and unsuitable. What to do with the kids...
Ralph: I found her TV ad very tasteful indeed, Wanda. Great photography and a real slice of life as it is undoubtedly lived in the Zaccaro household, at least when all those accountants aren't cluttering up the place. Here we are, sharing a typical moment of televised intimacy between a famous mother, her two daughters and a Pepsi. Like most Americans, I found myself riveted to the tube as she told the daughters, "You can be anything you want to be" and that being a mother was one of the choices she was most proud of. You've just...
Music dominated this household of creative artists. The Pasternaks haunted the city's concerts, which were more like family gatherings than formal affairs. At the beginning of the concerts the chairs were arranged in the usual rows. "But since the same people attended nearly every concert . . . and knew each other well by sight, the arrangement was regularly disturbed by the audience's imperative need to share its pleasures," Pasternak recalls. The listeners "shifted, straggled, and clustered," taking their chairs with them. "By the end of the evening the seating had turned into a map charting the music's magnetic field...