Word: saroyan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mooning Tradition. Ever since she created that yearning, harum-scarum, twelve-year-old Frankie who wanted to be The Member of the Wedding, Novelist McCullers has been part of the U.S. tradition of mooning, a tradition to which Sherwood Anderson, Eugene O'Neill, and William Saroyan, at his infrequent best, belonged. But where Frankie shed her fantasies for the more abundant life of growing up, the characters in the current novel are stripped of their fantasies only to wither away. Clock Without Hands is thus a kind of Member of the Funeral. Death is admittedly the theme Novelist McCullers...
From a guest pulpit in the New York Herald Tribune, Author William Saroyan, a longtime tax-impelled expatriate, unburdened himself of a sermon on the sins of the U.S. theater. Among his targets: "fishy" audiences ("The real people almost never get to the theater"), captious critics ("If they were reviewing the world, the show would close after two performances"), and that revered Broadway training ground, the Actors' Studio ("The supreme achievement at this new church is to divorce from any of its members even the faintest condition of peopleness"). The gist of Saroyan's complaint: "Everybody is kind...
Omnibus (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). "Fierce, Funny and Far Out," a sampling of contemporary avant-garde theater, with William Saroyan commenting on scenes from Eugene Ionesco's The Killer, Edward Albee's The Sand Box, Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, and his own The Time of Your Life...
...moment. John Fitzgerald Kennedy wrote in praise of the campaign efforts of Democratic National Committee Chairman Henry ("Scoop") Jackson; Brother Bobby Kennedy had words of praise for California's nonpolitical Community Service Organization for getting out the Spanish-speaking vote. Sam Goldwyn, Gore Vidal, Jack Paar and William Saroyan all ticked off TIME on matters of personal privilege. Last month eight writers and critics (James Baldwin, Jason Epstein, Lillian Hellman, Alfred Kazin, Robert Lowell, Norman Podhoretz, Lionel Trilling, William Phillips) collaborated in a letter in defense of the literary reputation of Fellow Writer Norman Mailer...
Last week Tufts presented William Saroyan's "The Cave Dwellers." One's reaction to Saroyan's self-consciously heart-warming parable is a matter of personal opinion. I find it a little on the gooey side, but as performed last week it was smooth and enjoyable. Margaret Victor was charming as the girl and Frederick Blais did a creditable job as the King. Stephen Palestrant produced servicable sets for both shows...