Word: saroyan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...years ago in northern California's lush, lettuce-growing Salinas valley, Steinbeck turned the area into a kind of strip-cartoon Yoknapatawpha County, where even the local Snopeses are kind to small animals. At times, the Salinas corn has been as high, if not as dry, as William Saroyan's young eye; at others, the view from Steinbeck's wayward literary bus has resembled Henry Miller's sex-sodden Tropics, minus the belly laughs...
Divorced. By Carol Burnett, 29, TV's most manic-expressive comedienne: Don Saroyan, 34, Hollywood actor-director; after nearly seven years of marriage, no children; in Las Vegas...
Candid Camera (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). The program has commissioned William Saroyan to write a one-act play; then film crews have gone out, using the candid camera technique, to test the situation in real life...
...Saroyan wrote this sort of ragpickers' polka, and so, in a quieter tempo, does Novelist Alma Stone. Her poor are the people of Manhattan's upper Broadway-watery-eyed men propped on their elbows in old. moneylosing bars, solitary old ladies who roost on park benches and share their tuna sandwiches with cats...
...General Electric Theater (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). The Unstoppable Grey Fox, an original TV play by William Saroyan, in which Lee J. Cobb plays an ousted State Department official...