Word: saroyaned
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...Saroyan's Heir. But there were some pretty substantial new plays, true though it was that many of them (Mister Roberts, Command Decision, The Heiress) had previously been books. And there was, at last, what almost everybody regarded as a substantial young playwright: Tennessee Williams, whose Streetcar Named Desire won both the Critics' Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize-a feat achieved only once before, by William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life...
Last heard in April, 1947, when it offered "Hello Out There," by William Saroyan, the Workshop will in the future include members of WHRV and the PBH Radio Committee, although the three groups will be independent of each other. There will also be openings for outsiders...
...stature of a Yale, Kenyon or Sewanee Review, but it was at least gaining weight. The fifth quarterly issue went to 8,000 buyers, a gain of 3,000 from the first. To win them (at $3.50 a year), Spectator had turned an appraising gaze on Western writers, from Saroyan to Steinbeck. It had given two score pent-up regional intellectuals an outlet, and had ranged beyond the Pacific horizon to China (Lawrence Sears) and London (C. S. Forester...
...back of the room sat a quiet young Negro, listening while the others talked. It was during the depression, and almost every day Harlem's WPA Art Center was crammed with artists and writers. "It was my education," says Jacob Lawrence. "I met people like Saroyan before he got famous. They all used to talk about what was going on in the world. Not only about art, but everything...
Gone is the talented all day player immortalized in Saroyan's "Time of Your Life", and in his place now stands the casual sportsman standing by clattering machine, munching a hamburger, and running up a million, but still a losing point score...