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Last week the song's author was happily aware that everything was not fini. Sallow-faced, balding Composer Alstone (né Siegfried Alfred Stein), singing his hit, was the star of his own troupe at the Riviera G.I. rest center...
...Gertrude Stein was two weeks along on a new novel called Brewsie and Willie. Subject: the way G.I.s worry and the way Gertrude Stein worries; "we are quite worried together," she said...
...literary critic. TIME style not only exists; it stinks. It may be economical, as you suggest, in a narrow, mechanical sort of way, but I'll bet that most people who have read widely and appreciatively in the great tradition of English and American prose from Aelfric to Stein & Joyce will agree that the prose in your magazine is pretty awful...
...Edmund Wilson has made a book of his friend's glittering, tragic life. It is in part a collection of essays, poems and letters written about Fitzgerald by his admirers (including Poets T. S. Eliot and John Peale Bishop, Critic Paul Rosenfeld, Novelist Wescott, John Dos Passos, Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, Thomas Wolfe). But the bulk of The Crack-Up consists of selections from Fitzgerald's own essays, stories, notebooks and letters, including the famed scarifying confession (published in Esquire in 1936) in which Fitzgerald explained his decline from high-ranking novelist to Hollywood hack. The result...
...Gertrude Stein, who wrote out the war in occupied France, wrote in the New York Times Magazine: "And now I have been asked are the young men of this war after the war is over, are they going to be sad young men. No, I do not think so. And I do not think so for a most excellent reason, they are sad young men already, if you are sad young men then there is a fair chance that life will begin at 30 instead of ending at 30 and I think more or less that is what is going...