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THOUGH it lacks something in literary style and narrative flow, the masthead appearing on this page does have an audience; Playwright William Saroyan even had a character in his comedy Love's Old Sweet Song recite it while trying to sell a subscription. Over the years, one name in particular has drawn inquiries, like the letter from a Wisconsin reader who wrote: "I'd sure like to see your cable desk people, including that fine ink-in-the-veins pro, Minnie Magazine. Come on now, this isn't really one of your gang...
...WILLIAM SAROYAN F resno, Calif...
...this material neither as light comedy in the Lubitsch manner nor as domestic drama, but attempts to create a kind of compromise fantasyland somewhere in between. That he succeeds is a mixed blessing. In their own comic innocence, Truffaut's people owe much to the creations of William Saroyan, an author to whom Truffaut paid homage in Shoot the Piano Player. But in Saroyan there is still much pain. In Truffaut it is increasingly concealed behind a general air of slightly manic pixilation...
...Best. O'Hara had little patience with writers of the '60s; he was of an earlier era, a contemporary of Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Sinclair Lewis. "I've never been able to read Norman Mailer," he complained in 1967. "Mailer is a dirty Saroyan." Bernard Malamud and William Styron received the same short shrift. Most young writers, however, confess to at least a degree of admiration for O'Hara. "He has more genius than talent," John Updike wrote in 1966. "Very little censoring went on in his head, but his best stories have the flowing...
...TIME OF YOUR LIFE. William Saroyan's play is revived with great care and affection by the Lincoln Center Repertory Company. In the context of 1969, this 30-year-old work is revealed as a kind of prophecy prefiguring changing dramatic trends and the skeptical questioning of American values...