Word: tamkin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hartford, Conn., accused of slapping his wife and locking her up, Norman Tamkin told the judge she had brought it on herself by feeding him a heat-and-serve TV supper, got a rebuttal from Mrs. Tamkin: "He lost the food money playing cards . . . Why, for the first three months of our marriage we didn't even have television...
...surrounds you in life as the earth does in death." Tommy Wilhelm, the fortyish hero of the title story, has a mind as empty as his pocket. Unemployed, dunned by his estranged wife, rebuffed by his wealthy father, he has hypnotically turned over his last $700 to Dr. Tamkin, a swindler so transparent that even Tommy sees through him. When the money vanishes Tommy reverts to childhood, finds release by sobbing hysterically at a stranger's funeral...
...combs Spain trying to buy the lost manuscripts of a dead poet. The stories suffer particularly from the fact that the leading characters are usually the dullest people in them. The reader of Seize the Day could do with less of regressive Tommy Wilhelm and more about rascally Dr. Tamkin, whose compelling eye and incessant tongue carry the story bracingly forward whenever he is onstage...
...Oregon-born brothers, Alex and David Tamkin, finished an operatic version in 1933. Met Conductor Artur Bodanzky saw it and liked it, but died before he could get it produced. Over the years, The Dybbuk inhabited several other composers, among them Hollywood's Dimitri Tiomkin. Two years ago, excerpts from the Tamkin work were presented in Portland, Ore. Last season the New York City Opera scheduled a production, but postponed it "for economy." Last week the Tamkin Dybbuk finally found fulfillment, and Manhattan's City Center Theater was packed for the world premi...
...Alex Tamkin stayed close to the theme of Ansky's tragedy for his English libretto, produced what the brothers call "a story of Romeo and Juliet set forth in ... cabalistic symbolism." An impoverished young Talmudic scholar named Channon wants to marry Leah, the daughter of a practical bourgeois type who thinks his daughter can do a lot better. Torn with love and bitterness, Channon studies mystic books, tampers with the supernatural, and is struck dead. But he returns as a dybbuk, to inhabit the body of Leah herself, just as she is presented with her wedding veil...