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...Charlotte Stein...
Steinbeck earned his first serious acclaim when The Red Pony appeared in the North American Review. But years afterward, critics still regarded him as a newcomer. Alfred Kazin praised him with faint damns: "After a dozen books Stein beck still looks like a distinguished apprentice, and what is so striking in his work is its inconclusiveness, his moving approach to human life and yet his failure to be creative with...
...John's literary ambitions. Still, they supported him through repeated failures at Stanford, and helped him out with stipends until he was past 30. He needed them; his income for the first period of steady writing was $870, or about $125 a year. Many years later the senior Stein beck confided the reasons for his generosity. Never in his life, he admitted sadly, had he achieved "any of the things he had dreamed of achieving." This, Kiernan reports, "was the reason he had been so tolerant of John's ambition, and in his last years so supportive...
...think she's a wonderfully qualified person," Phyllis Stein, chairman of the search committee and director of Radcliffe Alumnae Career Services, said yesterday...
Martin has constructed the play so skillfully that past and present join to form an artful mosaic. Though they never appear onstage, all those close to Stein, particularly her brother Leo and her lover Alice B. Toklas, are given life by her recounting. To help her memorize her difficult role, Carroll sought the help of a hypnotist. If this mesmerizing performance is any guide, she appears to have learned the hypnotist's art herself...