tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19360670.post8743210618657225184..comments2024-03-25T03:20:57.659-04:00Comments on My Daily Struggles: "Send in the Clowns"My Daily Struggleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12785498459884222234noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19360670.post-3564795598216332952011-07-05T16:20:33.928-04:002011-07-05T16:20:33.928-04:00"Stephen famously despised his mother; he onc..."Stephen famously despised his mother; he once wrote a thank-you note to close friend Mary Rodgers that read, 'Dear Mary and Hank, Thanks for the plate, but where was my mother's head? Love, Steve.'" <br /><br />The analyst in me sees a possible expression of an erotic attraction. In Strauss's opera Salome the title character is sexually attracted to John the Baptist. When he rejects her, she demands (and gets) John the Baptist's severed head on a plate.My Daily Struggleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12785498459884222234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19360670.post-41957252443549904632011-07-04T11:20:41.784-04:002011-07-04T11:20:41.784-04:00My 1997 letter to Elizabeth Wright Ingraham:
...My 1997 letter to Elizabeth Wright Ingraham:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_130070489" rel="nofollow"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_130070489" rel="nofollow"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_130070489" rel="nofollow"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://dailstrug.blogspot.com/2010/04/notable-architect-frank-lloyd-wright.html" rel="nofollow">http://dailstrug.blogspot.com/2010/04/notable-architect-frank-lloyd-wright.html</a>My Daily Struggleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12785498459884222234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19360670.post-31640312965009486882011-07-04T11:18:32.332-04:002011-07-04T11:18:32.332-04:00Meryl Secrest, who wrote a biography of Stephen So...Meryl Secrest, who wrote a biography of Stephen Sondheim, also wrote biographies of Leonard Bernstein and architect Frank Lloyd Wright. <br /><br />(I used to work at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia (1974) with Catherine Ingraham, a great-granddaughter of Wright's. I think Ingraham thought I would do something important some day. Ha!).<br /><br />Meryl Secrest resides in Washington, DC.<br /><br /><br />I think this is the same Catherine Ingraham:<br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_659788095" rel="nofollow"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_659788095" rel="nofollow"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/faculty/details.cgi?faculty_id=1421" rel="nofollow">http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/faculty/details.cgi?faculty_id=1421</a>My Daily Struggleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12785498459884222234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19360670.post-1216434234601099162011-07-04T11:06:35.128-04:002011-07-04T11:06:35.128-04:00"Herbert, his father, was a dress manufacture..."Herbert, his father, was a dress manufacturer and Foxy, his mother, designed the dresses."<br /><br />Striking coincidence:<br /><br />In Clifford Odets' play <i>Paradise Lost</i>, the characters Sam Katz and Leo Gordon are women's handbag manufacturers. Sam Katz runs the business, while Leo Gordon designs the ladies' handbags. Katz and Gordon live in the same residence.My Daily Struggleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12785498459884222234noreply@blogger.com