Word: teichman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Friday, April 7: Lecture--The Background and Implications of the Lebanese Crisis for Arab-Israeli Peace, Sherman Teichman Lewis Hall Lounge...
...book is an "intimate portrait," so he packs a series of topical chapters ("...The Playwright, The Wit, The Cardplayer...") between two very thin slices of reminiscence. While the reminiscences are very good, the stuff in between would be bad filler for the Reader's Digest. In each chapter Teichman sloppily recounts a few Kaufman anecdotes, comes up with a few obvious generalities and sometimes even tacks on a list of short witticisms. The purpose of this approach is understandable; he is trying all along to give an impression of Kaufman as a great wit, but instead Kaufman comes...
...George S. Kaufman, Teichman...