Word: saroyan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HERE COMES THERE GOES You KNOW WHO (273 pp.)-William Saroyan-Simon & Schuster...
...will of Temple Drake, and Erskine Caldwell's degenerates roistered on Tobacco Road. Upon all this hardness, rawness and ache, a volume of stories descended almost like a balm in 1934: The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, by a young man of 26, William Saroyan. The book was a mixture of love and pity and humor: pity and humor for everyone, especially bums and prostitutes, and love for life, no matter how preposterous. If it was writing that perhaps lacked bite, at least it did not gnash its teeth; if the prose was not exactly muscular...
Since 1934, Saroyan has turned out generous quantities of short stories, novels, and at least one distinguished play (The Time of Your Life). At his best, when dealing with small boys, Armenian Americans, and poets without portfolio, he has won himself a modest but lasting place in our literature; at his worst, whenever he gets involved in Issues or Ideas (both with capital I's), he falls flatter than Bahgh-arch, the Armenian flat bread. There is a third capitalized I that has proved fatal to Saroyan: the plain, unsimple I of his boundless...
Time of Decision. But the year off seems to have been a time of decision for Gleason. Late in 1958, he took on a role as a serious actor - in a television produc tion of Saroyan's The Time of Your Life. To nearly everybody's astonishment, he was enormously impressive. Then Producer David Merrick asked him to play the blissfully besotted Uncle Sid in Take Me Along-the musical version of Eugene O'Neill's Ah! Wilderness. His collision with Merrick, whose ego matches his. was Homeric. "What's the highest straight salary ever...
...Broadway 2 by Saroyan mates Talking to You, a brief, touching, one-act parable of Good and Evil, with Across the Board on Tomorrow Morning, a full, hilarious, one-act serving of prime Time of Your Life Saroyantics. As a waiter in a zany café, Milt Kamen is enormous fun to be with...