Word: steined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Enter Laughing, by Joseph Stein. The Jewish situation comedy is not a trend but a glut. This one offers traces of honest observation, and as a clown of a would-be actor, Alan Arkin is outrageously funny...
...baroque to the contemporary, each was given the podium of the Symphony of the Air for a 15-minute tour. Half were dismissed with thanks. The preliminary rounds lasted five full days-a tense ordeal for the conductors, an exhausting one for the musicians. While the contestants conducted, Bern stein occasionally patrolled the aisles making elephant ears with his hands, the better to judge. When the semifinals arrived, twelve were left, including two Americans; a Pole got appendicitis, and then there were eleven...
Enter Laughing, by Joseph Stein. The Jewish situation comedy is not a trend but a glut. This one offers traces of honest observation, and as a clown of a would-be actor, Alan Arkin is outrageously funny...
...manuscripts, cared for the dogs, screened the visitors and tended the vegetable gardens that they planted almost anywhere the two of them lived. She knitted the shapeless woolen garments and heavy woolen stockings Gertrude favored. She seems, in fact, to have disappeared virtually without a trace into Gertrude Stein's life. The reader never learns, for instance, what became of her father (her mother died when she was young) or her younger brother. After her departure from San Francisco back in 1907, she returned only once - and that was with Gertrude Stein on a lecture tour...
...Fleurus reverently listening to the voice that Alice Toklas can still plainly hear - "deep, full, velvety like a great contralto's." She heard it last in a hospital room shortly before Gertrude was wheeled away for an operation that she did not survive: "By this time Gertrude Stein was in a sad state of indecision and worry. I sat next to her and she said to me early in the afternoon, what is the answer? I was silent. In that case, she said, what is the question...