Word: stein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...courtship of Franchise, Picasso didn't show her his etchings-he showed her how to etch. Since she was a full 40 years younger than he, she had to pass acid-test encounters with Gertrude Stein, Braque, Matisse, Cocteau, and a dozen other greats before she could share his life. Yet, judging from her memoirs, crammed with incredible recall, she was a cool creature who passed the tests but, instead of sharing his life, only came to understand...
Munich last week was going all the way with L.B.J. A Bavarian brass band clad in lederhosen oompahed California, Here I Come while lusty stein clankers wearing campaign hats and Johnson buttons roared out "Prosit!" But in Paris they were shouting for "Goldwater in '64" as Republicans gathered in a mirrored conference room at the Ritz and collected $1,000 in campaign funds at the first passage...
...like a change of face can purchase a mustache for 50?. Young people feel a sense of release from the rapt silence that is derigueur at cool-jazz joints. Stag girls like the clubs because the wholesome entertainment reassures them that the boy singing Bye Bye Blackbird across the stein is not likely to turn out to be a mugger (and even if he is, at least he's a happy...
...MOVEABLE FEAST, by Ernest Hemingway. Funny, if often unkind, inside reminiscences of the literati (Gertrude Stein, Ford Madox Ford, Scott Fitzgerald) who befriended the young unknown writer in his Paris springtime before The Sun Also Rises thrust him into their own outer-world of fame...
...MOVEABLE FEAST, by Ernest Hemingway. Funny, if often unkind, inside reminiscences of the literati (Gertrude Stein, Ford Madox Ford, Scott Fitzgerald) who befriended the young unknown writer in his Paris springtime before The Sun Also Rises thrust him into their own outerworld of fame...