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...Gertrude Stein writes as always in a way that anyone might like or anyone might not like, as always she mixes things a little. Really though it is simple it is really sensible and it does tell you about France, it tells you what Gertrude Stein knows about France which is interesting. It is also charming of course it is charming. It is also sad because Gertrude Stein was writing when everyone in France was hopeful, she began writing soon after there was a war but before there really...
Explanations even good explanations are easy for Gertrude Stein who never explains everything at once, so it is that she explains why everybody went to Paris about 1900. They needed the background of tradition she says of profound conviction that men and women and children do not change, that science is interesting but does not change anything, that democracy is real but that governments unless they tax you too much or get you defeated by the enemy are of no importance, that she says is the background that everybody needed...
This is simple and it is nice it seems general it seems vague but isn't there a lot of truth in it. It is the same with Gertrude Stein's stories the stories she tells about the French to show their logic and their sense of fashion, qualities that make them seem peaceful and exciting, for instance Monsieur Lambert. Gertrude Stein met him with his wife and oxen...
...clerk in a Fairbanks woman's wear store, ebon-haired Miss Motschman got a free trip to Washington. Commented a local liberal: "The most progressive move in Alaska since Soapy Smith- was plugged." Quitting his Vatican observatory after an evening of star gazing, absent-minded Professor Father John Stein forgot to switch off the lights, left them blazing like a beacon over blacked-out Rome. Summoned by a flood of protests, Vatican City firemen broke open the door, doused the gleaming glim...
...uneven, engaging crew. Happiest when criticizing critics, capitalizing on capitalists and declaring war on "Imperialist War," they are almost as happy when they can snag a literary lion. Of these they have snagged a pride, from Apostle Trotsky himself to such international camelo-pards as Andre Gide and Gertrude Stein. Latest catch is Poet T. S. Eliot's new, beautiful, 200-line poem for the current May-June issue...