Word: stein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Enter Laughing, by Joseph Stein. There is an improvisational air to this play that lends freshness to a stalely familiar genre, the Jewish family comedy. As a youngster with a yen to act, Alan Arkin is rib-splittingly funny...
...depth for her part. Strange Interlude, by Eugene O'Neill, puts its characters on a kind of verbal couch for 4½ hours, but the amateur psychoanalyzing currently seems both comic and a trifle freudulent. Star Geraldine Page rings as true as 14 carats. Enter Laughing, by Joseph Stein. There is an improvisational air to this play that lends freshness to a stalely familiar genre, the Jewish family comedy. As a youngster with a yen to act, Alan Arkin is rib-splittingly funny. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, by Edward Albee. Winner of the New York Drama...
Hemingway took him to the boxing matches; Duchamp beat him at chess. Brancusi entertained him by playing the violin, Cocteau by a drum recital, Gertrude Stein by letting Alice B. Toklas cook him lunch. And this was fit tribute to the wiry young expatriate American who not only made artful photographs of his Paris friends but also created a series of "objects"-tacks fastened to a flatiron, a picture of the human eye to a metronome - that shook the salons of the '20s with cries of ecstasy and reverence. Yet Man Ray wanted fame as a painter...
Several years after the publication of the Principles, Gertrude Stein '97 arrived at Radcliffe. She elected to concentrate--if such a pedestrian word is proper--in psychology. Like Alice Toklas, James had great respect for her intelligence; he publicly acclaimed her the most outstanding woman student of his long teaching career...
...Gertrude Stein was never one who seemed to require the services of men: her creative faculties appeared self-fecundating. But perhaps we can imbroil James in an intellectual paternity suit, nonetheless. After all, she was but a young impressionable 'Cliffie, while he had by then attained world renown. In lieu of a blood test, one need only examine the term "stream of consciousnes literature." It is astonishing how Jamesian some passages of Miss Stein's essays on the art of writing sound. Surely the extent of the dalliance is clear beyond reasonable doubt. And if we can obtain the conviction...