Word: saroyans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last Word (CBS, 3-3:30 p.m.). William Saroyan, who wallows in language like a dieter in a delicatessen, is this week's guest etymologist...
...literate or semiliterate types from all the stages of show business. Determined readers could dip into an essay on sin in the cinema by a translator of foreign subtitles named Herman Weinberg ("Surely, it is not sophistication to revel in bosoms and behinds"). They could sample Playwright William Saroyan at his most incomprehensible ("Squawking is futile unless it's something else at the same time, such as art, which is also futile unless it is something else at the same time, such as willing"). But for all its words, what the weighty issue added up to was a catalogue...
...Rumdum, who gets thrown out of saloons in pantomime; otherwise Gleason has retreaded the old sit-bys, e.g., the Poor Soul, Reggie Van Gleason III. (Reggie also crept into Gleason's performance of Joe, the philosophical boozer, in Playhouse 90's otherwise first-rate production of William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life.) Perhaps Gleason's worst mistake: replacing Art Carney and Audrey Meadows, who were actors, and could play up to Gleason's roaring diatribes and outrageous double takes, with Buddy Hackett, a lowbrow buffoon funny on his own but not much help...
Jackie Gleason and Betsy Palmer bring back The Time of Your Life, William Saroyan's wonderfully wacky glimpse of life and love in a San Francisco Embarcadero saloon...
...much as I can of the life and work of the Soviet people. It is important for the peace of the world that we understand each other." Besides rubbernecking in the tundra, Stevenson will hack away at a thorny issue: royalties for U.S. authors (including Ernest Hemingway, William Saroyan) whose work has been printed in the Soviet Union without compensation...