Word: saroyans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only rarely does a new author's first book of short stories announce much besides one more young lady who had a sheltered adolescence or one more young gentleman who did not. An exception was William Saroyan's The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, which created such a stir in the '30s. Lover Man, by Alston Anderson, 35, may not come up to Saroyan's Daring Voting Man, but at least it occupies the same ballpark. With this series Anderson introduces himself not only as a first-class writer, but also as an observer...
...Like Saroyan's Armenians, Anderson's people are one of the few lingering groups of exotics still maintaining cultural autonomy before the melting pot gets them -the small-town Negroes of the South. Anderson himself was a Southern Negro, but not until he was 14. Born in Panama of Jamaican parents, he went to school in Kingston before going to Oxford, N.C., where he lived until he was drafted into the Army in 1943. A master sergeant at war's end, Anderson took the G.I. bill through North Carolina College ('47), went on to study...
Wars of the World. Perhaps the most successful of the newer sickniks, Bruce somehow recalls the kid in Saroyan's The Time of Your Life who keeps thinking that he is a comedian but succeeds only in spouting his miseries. Although audiences unquestionably laugh at Bruce, much of the time he merely shouts angrily and tastelessly at the way of the world (on religious leaders: "They have missed the boat. 'Thou shall no kill.' they say, and then one of them walks comfortingly to the death chamber with Caryl Chessman.''). Some of the material springs...
...Dramatization of William Saroyan's funny, sentimental sheaf of stories, The Human Comedy...
Clearly not having the time of his life, Author William Saroyan sailed for a film assignment in Yugoslavia, disclosed a little human comedy all his own: "I owe $30,000 in back income taxes. I don't have anything except old clothes." In fact, he added, "I need about $200,000 to get on my feet"-and unless he gets it, he might stay abroad the rest of his life...