Gertrude Stein

...de Balzac and Marcel Proust share pride of place with prominent Americans and Englishmen who chose to be buried there like Gertrude Stein, Oscar Wilde and Jim Morrison. It's such a sprawling place that it's best to get a map and explore...

In this article: New Orleans, Buenos Aires, Paris, Oscar Wilde, La Recoleta Cemetery, Mingles, and Catholicism

In college, Mr. Cronkite cut his journalistic teeth at The Daily Texan, the student paper, chasing interviews with the likes of Gertrude Stein while developing a fondness for pipe-smoking. With Mr. Cronkite's blessing, archivists at the...

In this article: Walter Cronkite, University of Texas at Austin, Alice B. Toklas, NASA, and Texas

...Paper, but the tone owes more to Dorothy Parker. Then, too, there is a knowing handling of rhythmic repetitions, a debt perhaps to Gertrude Stein, and in several places a delight in American slang which is used as a challenge to mandarin prose.

In this article: Stevie Smith, Frances Spalding, John Piper, Myfanwy Piper, Virginia Woolf, and Germany

..."modern" means Kandinsky or Picasso, Schoenberg or Stravinsky. It means daring experimental writers such as Ezra Pound or Gertrude Stein. It means Frank Lloyd Wright sweeping out the overstuffed and fusty in favor of long, clean lines. It...

In this article: Project Runway, Frank Lloyd Wright, Johns Hopkins University, Ezra Pound, Nina Garcia, Pablo Picasso, and Igor Stravinsky

...given to Tassie as a rite-of-passage by her mother is a "gyno-noose"; a lyrically-minded Muslim extremist is like "Gertrude Stein speaking from inside a burka". If forced to find fault, too many jokes get in the way of Moore's...

In this article: Potato, Pizza, Consumerism, and Venom

...to Winter's tale. (Ages 5-8.) Winter's other picture-book biography borrows the style of its subject - writer Gertrude Stein - to tell her story. Titled "Gertrude Is Gertrude Is Gertrude Is Gertrude" (Atheneum, $16.99), the book will...

In this article: Sandra Day O'Connor, Wanda Gag, Antoni Gaudi, U.S. Supreme Court, and Kathryn Lasky

...view is a view, signposts aEUR" in the often exasperatingly lucid thought of modernist writer Gertrude Stein. Specifically, Molnar riffs off Stein's concept of the "continuous present," expressing it through a circularity of composition that...

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...the sharp Cubist lines that would become El guitarrista , the 1925 portrait of a guitarist that illustrated the cover of Gertrude Stein's A Book Concluding With a Wife as a Cow: A Love Story . The pioneering Gris, a tortured artist if...

In this article: Auguste Renoir, Paris, Salvador Dali, Juan Gris, Pablo Picasso, and Basel

...of recent years-a new collection of his plays, a new anthology of his letters to fellow cosmopolitans like Hemingway and Gertrude Stein, a sterling revival of Our Town currently running off-Broadway-has just entered an especially...

In this article: Thornton Wilder, Our Town, Rome, The Skin of Our Teeth, Yale, Pepperidge Farm, Library of America, and The Bridge of San Luis Rey

...title is not "secretary," according to the author, was present. This lady who walked in on Miss Stein twenty-five years ago and has been with her ever since has absorbed much of the charm possessed by the most famous of the pair. But if...

In this article: Walter Cronkite, The Daily Texan, and Alice B. Toklas