Word: steins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...each other and nothing to anybody else except a handful of fellow writers who shared the 25-year-old Midwesterner's tough belief in his own talent. He had sold a few short stories for marks in Germany and peanuts in the little magazines like transatlantic review. Gertrude Stein had told him he was not yet good enough for the Saturday Evening Post, and he was trying to beat the horses at Auteuil and Enghien to stake a trip to Pamplona to see the bullfights...
...Gertrude Stein is something else again. Indeed, A Moveable Feast should settle for all time the question of whether Hemingway learned his style under the tutelage of that strange lady. Hemingway was a generous man, and if a debt of this kind existed, he would have acknowledged it. He does not, and is at some pains to make clear that her experiments in written speech-simple rhythms, using repetition and echo for subtle psychological effects ran parallel with his own. Hemingway's sketch of her is a masterpiece of controlled malice in which she appears as a monster...
...works are at the Gallery of Modern Art (see below), but a rarer glimpse of the artist is given here. Friends have lent some 100 water-colors and drawings, many never exhibited, some personally inscribed. Included: Night and Day, a 1926 gouache-and-sand once owned by Gertrude Stein, who discovered him; portraits of Esme, the little girl in Hide-and-Seek; the cranial lattice work of his later years. Through April...
...opinions, and few opinions on any public subject. "In the presence of more than half a dozen people, he shrinks to the point of anonymity," says a friend. The essential point about this complex man is made by his veteran editor at The New Yorker, William Maxwell. Quoting Gertrude Stein on the absoluteness of creation, Maxwell once said: "If 'a rose is a rose is a rose,' a rose is also a rose-making machine. Cheever is a storymaking machine." To untangle the somewhat lush botanical metaphor, this means not merely that Cheever is a natural writer...
...Leslie Lessinger; John M. Lewis; Richard H. Masland; Leonard A. Merewitz; Frederick V. Mulhauser; Carl D. Offner; David F. Phillips; Michael D. Platt; Joe A. Porter; Marc J. Roberts; Edward K. Schmookler; George S. Shapiro; James C. Sherburne; William F. Sibley; Nathaniel B. Smith; Martin C. Spechler; Michael R. Stein; John E. Terrell; Andreas W. Teuber; Stephen N. Thomas; Kenneth L. Tigar; Stephen F. Tobias; Richard Weisskoff; Francis A. Westbrook III; and John C. Wilcox...