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Auld Lang Stein. In Sandridge, England, the widow of Pubkeeper Bert Gudgeon, carrying out his wishes, had a stone beer mug installed on his grave...
...Cannon remembers her contemporaries as a stimulated and highly intelligent group. "We came because we really wanted to. The Harvard men called us greasy grinds, but as a matter of fact they married us." An acquaintance of the controversial Gertrude Stein, Mrs. Cannon describes her as "very brilliant and erratic--not admirable. (She was horribly disappointed in my lack of talent...
...simultaneous beauty and danger of its own unconscious mechanistic philosophy," scored it for eight pianos and a player piano, bass drums, xylophones, rattles, whistles, electric bells and an airplane propeller. This made him a special favorite of Paris intellectuals, where he knew Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and Mrs. James Joyce, who-Antheil remembered-was always asking her husband, "why he didn't write sensible books . . . why he didn't become a banker . . . why he got egg on the bedspread." Back in the U.S. in the '30s, he wrote film scores (for Ben Hecht, Cecil...
...School at that time and both Leo Stein and his sister impressed me as bright young Freshmen with independent and a little erratic notions--notions, of course, which they expressed much more modestly and pressed less strenuously upon older people than they did habitually later...
...Gertrude Stein impressed me as a woman who was very careless about her appearance and dress; very alive to all kinds of interests and liable to question the viewpoints of her instructors. She was very fond of Mrs. Oppenheimer (through whom Mr. Friedman met the Steins), who was a very motherly woman and took both Gertrude and Leo under her wing, had them at her house quite a little, and fed them more lavishly than the way in which they were living in Cambridge at the time...