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...thunder, chortle, crack, intone, growl, drawl," etc. The same article suggested that the reason for TIME'S liveliness can be found in the masthead, which lists dozens of female researchers whose "pulse-quickening" presence "peps up TIME'S denizens." TIME'S masthead also fascinated Playwright William Saroyan, who had a character in his 1940 comedy, Love's Old Sweet Song, recite it (73 names then) while trying to sell a subscription...
...Francisco, Seattle, San Simeon, Yosemite and Los Angeles are some of the stops on this tour guided by the likes of William Saroyan, Willie Mays, Pierre Salinger, Francis X. Bushman and Lee Remick...
Good autobiography is often not so much a self-portrait as a chronicle of the times. Such is Starting Out in the the thirties, a chatty tour of the Depression in New York and the generation of radical writers-John Steinbeck, William Saroyan, Clifford Odets, James T. Farrell, Robert Cantwell-who, like Author Kazin, were starting out in the Thirties. An essayist, critic and anthologist (F. Scott Fitzgerald: the Man and His Work; The Portable William Blake), Kazin was born in a Brooklyn slum, the son of an immigrant Polish Jew. He got his first job, as a part-time...
...your cover story on Norton Simon [June 4], he is compared to Gertrude Stein, William Saroyan and Lord Keynes, among others. The story also quotes him as believing himself to be "in the process of becoming" and that ours is a "paradoxical life." This is purely the philosophy of Georg Hegel. This in itself will suffice to explain why Simon is not serene...
...unlikely figure he is. A college dropout, he frequently talks like a tortured composite of Gertrude Stein, William Saroyan and Lord Keynes. "I am in the process of becoming," he says ?period. He boasts, with absolute seriousness, that "I have a rigidity of flexibility." His view of life?and business?is more akin to Diogenes than to Donner: "I believe in a paradoxical form of life. I don't believe anything is wholly right, but both right and wrong. There is a thin line between. There is a Chi nese proverb that 'Life is a search for truth...