Word: schwartz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SUCCESSFUL LOVE (242 pp.)-Delmore Schwartz-Corinth...
...rainy, unpromising greyness surrounds the short stories of Delmore Schwartz, as it does the fiction of other writers who find the literary quarterlies their most congenial homes. One reason for the quarterly drear seems to be an extreme distrust of the dramatic, arising partly from squeamishness about melodrama, that greatest of sins against artistic sophistication. Another is the honest awareness of serious men that the cavalry rarely does charge into ordinary lives. One might suspect that Schwartz and his colleagues had all been invited to tea by John Marcher-the hero of Henry James's The Beast...
...Arrivals. This reluctance of Schwartz-a poet, critic and onetime Partisan Review editor-and other writers of his sort to let things happen on the page, more or less in view.of the reader, means that their fiction lacks the sense of journey-and-arrival that, even if it is only a movement from one mood to another, distinguishes a story from a prose painting or a personal essay. Most of the stories in this book are plotless. Some are mere parables, the ironies of which do not make up for the anemia of the telling. A somewhat giddy heartiness about...
...Life (book by Fay and Michael Kanin; music and lyrics by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz) is one of those musicals that seem to spring from back numbers of the National Geographic. It is full of scenic wonders-a Carlsbad spa with fountains spouting real water, a Christmas vision of Old Vienna filigreed in confectioner's icing, a wedding extravaganza such as only Broadway angels can afford. In and about these Oliver Smith settings cavort the Wiener Burger, garbed by Lucinda Ballard in resplendent turn-of-the-century costumes. Unfortunately, there is little more to this comic operetta than...
Unquestionably, Bartley's burgers are the best buy this side of Montauk Point. The meat is firm and red; comes in a full-sized pat ("When you take a thin piece of meat at high temperatures, you lose all the juice," Schwartz explains); and in a variety of new-fashioned forms, including a Gourmet Garlic Burger, at 50 cents ("The students at Harvard sort of helped create the demand for that," says Schwartz laconically). And, then, each burger-be it a Harvard Double Burger, at 80 cents, or a Bacon Cheese Burger, at 65 cents--comes with fresh cole slaw...