Word: steins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...edition of the Harvard varsity heavyweight crew unveils itself today in a Stein Cup race against Brown on the Seekonk River in Providence. The Crimson will be shooting to retain the cup for the tenth consecutive year. Harvard has never lost...
...small instrumental ensemble accompanied the Vespers. The continue part, led by organist Lenora Stein, was consistently good. The reinforcing instruments, viola da gamba and violone, were played with a sense of balance commensurate to the size of the group...
...truism of the Lost Generation that she influenced Hemingway's style crucially. He took her schematic use of sound patterns and transmogrified it into the spare, stylized prose that became the most pervasive literary parlance of the century. For all her celebrity as a writer, Stein's fame lies as much in her life as her work. She kept the long-running artistic crap game going for nearly 50 years in her Paris salon. Though time has adjusted some of Gertrude's accounts, reputations really were made and broken at 27, rue de Fleurus...
...other hostess there was her lover of 40 years, Alice B. Toklas. Toklas was the wife in this enduring homosexual partnership. She marketed, cooked, gardened, hired and fired the help (frequently), crocheted, talked with other wives while their husbands were listening to Stein. As Hemingway remarked, Toklas was also the executioner. When Gertrude was bored or insulted by someone, it was Alice who rang up and told the offender not to come round again...
Their lives had some of the character and texture of an oldfashioned, well-upholstered novel. It is James Mellow's achievement that he has told the story carefully and unpretentiously in clear, uncluttered prose. The evidence is that the first part was the best. When Miss Stein, the privately tutored daughter of a California stockbroker, first went to Europe in 1903, she encountered young painters-Picasso, Braque, Matisse. She and her brother Leo began buying their pictures and aggressively befriending them. She clipped The Katzenjammer Kids from home newspapers for Picasso. The famous Saturday open-house evenings began...