Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three weeks, leaving behind it a small but fervent group of admirers, some of whom, according to The New York Times, may resuscitate it this month in another Broadway house. In any case, it has also infiltrated the bookstores. Anybody interested in the theatre, anybody who likes to read plays, would do well to have a look...
Contributions to the annual PBH Blood Drive have been disappointingly lagging behind schedule, according to Leon Rothenberg '61, co-chairman of the Harvard-Radcliffe drive. He and co-chairman Read Albright '60 appealed yesterday to all students who are 21 or over to give blood today or tomorrow at Memorial Hall whether or not they have made an appointment. Students under 21 may give only if they can secure parental permission...
...Reading is the only thing I really enjoy. I have read constantly since I was twelve. I read about four or five books a week, and I have finished over 200 books in the last five months alone." Capote is particularly disposed to Proust, Flaubert, Jane Austen, Turgenev, and, among living writers, E. M. Forster. He has a voluminous Proust collection, including a number of obscure biographies...
...early books, entitled Truman Capote and the Search for the Holy Grail. The article was later published in pamphlet form. "He said that I had steeped myself in the Arthurian legends, that my book was really a subtle, symbolic retelling of the old myths. It was insanity! I never read the Arthurian legends, even as a child. And even today I'm still not sure what the holy grail...
...Leslie Fiedler's remarks about the Harper's Bazaar "literary academy" (of which Capote was supposedly a prominent member): "Critics have to make a living." The same was true, he added, about "all this Beat Generation talk. I read Kerouac and that other fellow, that poet, and they have nothing in common. Critics just have to have something to say, to write about...