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The skill of William Saroyan (1908-1981), American short-story writer, dramatist, and novelist, in evoking mood and atmosphere was noteworthy, and his imaginary world, peopled with common men, was warm and compelling. William Saroyan was born in Fresno,...

In the spring of 1939, when the work of William Saroyan first reached the New York stage in the form of a one-act play entitled My Heart's in the Highlands, Sidney B. Whipple of the New York World-Telegram accused Saroyan and his producers of conducting...

Growing up in an Armenian immigrant community in the San Joaquin Valley of California with both of his grandmothers as storytellers was a propitious circumstance for William Saroyan's career as a writer. Witnessing the behavior of an individualistic, fre...

Today is the Prospect Park Alliance Hat Party. As far as we can figure (and we’re sort of scared to dig too much), this shebang takes place in the wee hours of the morning at the grand River Café in Brooklyn, where ladies (and some...

Today is Thursday, Oct. 25, the 298th day of 2007. There are 67 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Oct. 25, 1854, the "Charge of the Light Brigade" took place during the Crimean War as an English brigade of more than 600 men,...

Subway-Stair Stroller Lift (Single, Double and Triple Divisions)Two-Door, One-Buzz Brownstone Vestibule Dash Fairway Tetrathlon (Cart Slalom, Appetizing Greco-Roman, Checkout Freestyle, Bag Clean-and-Jerk) First Avenue Synchronized Light Run (5,000m) LaGuardia Baggage-Handling Shot-Put Cyclist's 4,000m Individual Pursuit of Cabbie Who Sideswiped Him Rat-Avoidance High Jump Wall Street...

[The Time of Your Life] is set in a San Francisco waterfront honky-tonk, through which twenty-six strongly individualized persons pass, each one of whom expresses one facet of the character of mankind. Every man at some time in his life might be like Dudley, who lives for love; or like Wesley, who considers life a battle between himself and the machine; or like Harry, sick at heart, but wanting to make people laugh; or like McCarthy, the muscular longshoreman who is a philosopher; or like his friend, Krupp,...

A careful reading [of The Time of Your Life] shows that Joe [the play's central character] may be seen as a valid Christ-figure—not a literal Christ, for The Time of Your Life is no Second Coming, nor even an allegorical Christ, but a type of Christ, essentially realistic and certainly very human—whose nature and behavior are completely consonant and who takes on stature as heroic protagonist within such a mode. Whether Saroyan consciously created Joe as Christ-figure is immaterial; thi...