Word: pirandello
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Andy Kaufman, comedy's stand-up Pirandello...
...Afro-American literature cannot be compared with that of Euro-American literature, and further, that if a man decides to teach the literature of his people, he is not a serious scholar. That in fact if he were a serious scholar he would teach and study the works of Pirandello or Beckett, Shakespeare or Dante, Milton or Chaucer...
...find this attitude rather remarkable. An American scholar is lauded if he studies the works of Euro-American authors: an Irish critic is honored if he knows the intricacies of Mr. Joyce. One is called perceptive if he can fathom why Beckett is waiting for Godot, of if indeed Pirandello's characters are really in search of an author or vice-versa. Indeed, one admires Pirandello's technical brilliance and his choice of metaphysical subject matter. Yet if and when one decides that the socio-psychological realism of Toni Morrison is indeed of tremendous literary significance or that Margaret Walker...
...audience "to pay tribute to Scottie Templeton," who is celebrating his 51st birthday and has just emerged from successful cancer treatments in the hospital. At first these interludes seem irritating and gratuitous, as though Slade were trying to disguise a one-set, chronologically ordered comedy by Pirandello-ing it up a bit. But afterwards, you can appreciate how these anecdotes should have worked: this is a tribute to Scottie's life, and yet each speaker can only talk of his outrageous practical jokes, his flair for improvising great comic routines in public, or the way he has clowned himself...
...creation of Citicorp Center might have been scripted by Ross Macdonald in collaboration with Pirandello (Six Characters in Search of an Author). It all began one Saturday afternoon in September 1968. Two ambitious real estate brokers, Donald Schnabel, then 36, and Charles McArthur, then 45, had heard that Saint Peter's might be for sale. As Schnabel and McArthur cased the other buildings in the block, they became possessed of what is almost an impossible dream in modern Manhattan: "assembling" all the parcels so that one mighty building could rise on the site...