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HERE COMES THERE GOES You KNOW WHO (273 pp.)-William Saroyan-Simon & Schuster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Proud to Be Great | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Proud to Be Great | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The Big Hustler Jackie Gleason | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dec. 22, 1961 | 12/22/1961 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Member of the Funeral | 9/22/1961 | See Source »

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