Nathanael West (born Nathan Wallenstein Weinstein) was born in New York City, the first child of German-speaking Russian Jewish parents from Lithuania who maintained an upper middle class household in a Jewish neighborhood on the Upper West Side. West displayed little ambition in academics, dropping out of high school and only gaining admission into Tufts University by forging his high school transcript. After being expelled from Tufts, West got into Brown University by appropriating the transcript of a fellow Tufts student who was also named Nathan Weinstein. Although West did little schoolwork at Brown, he read extensively. He ignored the realist fiction of his American contemporaries in favor of French surrealists and British and Irish poets of the 1890s, in particular Oscar Wilde. West's interests focused on unusual literary style as well as unusual content. He became interested in Christianity and mysticism, as experienced or expressed through literature and art. West's classmates at Brown ironically nicknamed him "Pep" after a school trip where after only a few minutes of walking he quickly ran out of breath. West himself acknowledged and made fun of his lack of physical prowess in recounting the story of a baseball match where he cost his team the game. Wells Root, a close friend of West, remembers hearing this tale half a dozen times, recalling that everyone had placed bets on the game, which came down to the final inning with the score tied and the enemy at bat with two outs. At that point the batter hit a long fly towards West:
He put his hands up to catch it and for some inexplicable reason didn’t hold them close together. The ball tore through, hit him in the forehead, and bounced into some brush. There was a roar from the crowd and [West] took one look and turned tail. To a man, the crowd had risen, gathered bats, sticks, stones, and anything they could lay hands on and were in hot pursuit. He vanished into some woods and didn’t emerge until nightfall. In telling the story he was convinced that if they had caught him they would have killed him.
It is unclear whether this ever actually happened, but West later re-imagined this in his short story "Western Union Boy". Since Jewish students were not allowed to join fraternities, his main friend was his future brother-in-law S. J. Perelman, who was to become one of America's most erudite comic writers. West barely finished at Brown with a degree. He then went to Paris for three months, and it was at this point that he changed his name to Nathanael West. West's family, who had supported him thus far, ran into financial difficulties in the late 1920s. West returned home and worked sporadically in construction for his father, eventually finding a job as the night manager of the Hotel Kenmore Hall on East 23rd Street in Manhattan. One of West's real-life experiences at the hotel inspired the incident between Romola Martin and Homer Simpson that would later appear in The Day of the Locust (1939).
Career as author
Although West had been working on his writing since college, it was not until his quiet night job at the hotel that he found the time to put his novel together. It was at this time that West wrote what would eventually become Miss Lonelyhearts (1933). In 1931, however, two years before he completed Miss Lonelyhearts, West published The Dream Life of Balso Snell, a novel he had conceived of in college. By this time, West was within a group of writers working in and around New York that included William Carlos Williams and Dashiell Hammett.
In 1933, West bought a farm in eastern Pennsylvania but soon got a job as a contract scriptwriter for Columbia Pictures and moved to Hollywood. He published a third novel, A Cool Million, in 1934. None of West's three works sold well, however, so he spent the mid-1930s in financial difficulty, sporadically collaborating on screenplays. Many of the films he worked on were B-movies, such as Five Came Back (1939). It was at this time that West wrote The Day of the Locust. West took many of the settings and minor characters of his novel directly from his experience living in a hotel on Hollywood Boulevard.
In November 1939, West was hired as a screenwriter by RKO Radio Pictures, where he collaborated with Boris Ingster on a film adaptation of the novel Before the Fact (1932) by Francis Iles. West and Ingster wrote the screenplay in seven weeks, with West focusing on characterization and dialogue as Ingster worked on the narrative structure. RKO assigned Before the Fact to Alfred Hitchcock as the film later titled Suspicion (1941), but Hitchcock already had his own, substantially different, screenplay, written by Samson Raphaelson, Joan Harrison, and Alma Reville. (Harrison was Hitchcock's secretary and Reville was Hitchcock's wife.) West and Ingster's screenplay was abandoned and never produced. The text of this screenplay can be found in the Library of America's edition of West's collected works.
Death
On December 22, 1940, West and his wife Eileen McKenney were returning to Los Angeles from a hunting trip in Mexico to attend the funeral of his friend, F. Scott Fitzgerald, when he ran a stop sign in El Centro, California, resulting in an accident in which he and McKenney were killed. McKenney had been the inspiration for the title character in the play My Sister Eileen, and she and West had been scheduled to fly to New York City for the Broadway opening on December 26.[3] West was buried in Mount Zion Cemetery in Queens, New York, with his wife's ashes placed in his coffin.
His work
Although West was not widely known during his life, his reputation grew after his death, especially with the publication of his collected novels by New Directions in 1957. Miss Lonelyhearts is widely regarded as West's masterpiece. The Day of the Locust still stands as one of the best novels written about the early years of Hollywood. It is often compared to F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon, written at about the same time and also set in Hollywood. If one were to draw a family tree of authors who employed "black humor" in their works of fiction, West could be seen as the offspring of Gogol and Poe, and the progenitor of Saul Bellow, Vladimir Nabokov, and Martin Amis (whose use of movingly inarticulate e-mails in Yellow Dog is a 21st-century echo of the letters to Miss Lonelyhearts). A more direct and pronounced influence has been traced from West's work to that of his near-contemporary, Flannery O'Connor.
Some of West's fiction is seen as a response to the Depression that hit America with the stock market crash in October 1929 and continued throughout the 1930s[citation needed]. The obscene, garish landscapes of The Day of the Locust gain added force in light of the fact that the remainder of the country was living in drab poverty at the time. Though West attended socialist rallies in New York's Union Square, his novels have no affinity to the novels of his contemporary activist writers such as John Steinbeck and John Dos Passos. West’s writing style does not allow the portrayal of positive political causes, as he admitted in a letter to Malcolm Cowley regarding The Day of the Locust: "I tried to describe a meeting of the anti-Nazi league, but it didn’t fit and I had to substitute a whorehouse and a dirty film"[4]. West saw the American dream as having been betrayed, both spiritually and materially, and in his writing he presented "a sweeping rejection of political causes, religious faith, artistic redemption and romantic love"[5]. This idea of the corrupt American dream endured long after his death, in the form of the term "West's disease", coined by the poet W. H. Auden to refer to poverty that exists in both a spiritual and economic sense. Jay Martin wrote an extensive biography of West in 1971; a new biography of West and McKenney by Marion Meade was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2010.
Published works
for a complete list of works see Bibliography of Nathanael West
Novels
The Dream Life of Balso Snell (1931)
Miss Lonelyhearts (1933)
A Cool Million (1934)
The Day of the Locust (1939)
Plays
Even Stephen (1934, with S. J. Perelman)
Good Hunting (1938, with Joseph Schrank)
Short stories
"Western Union Boy"
"The Imposter"
Posthumous collections
Bercovitch, Sacvan, ed. Nathanael West, Novels and Other Writings (Library of America, 1997) ISBN 978-1-883011-28-4
[edit] Screenplays
Ticket to Paradise (1936)
Follow Your Heart (1936)
The President's Mystery (1936)
Rhythm in the Clouds (1937)
It Could Happen to You (1937)
Born to Be Wild (1938)
Five Came Back (1939)
I Stole a Million (1939)
Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
The Spirit of Culver (1940)
Men Against the Sky (1940)
Let's Make Music (1940)
Before the Fact (1940) (unproduced)
Notes
Obituary Variety December 25, 1940.
quoted in Martin, Jay. Nathanael West: The Art of His Life. New York: Hayden, 1971. 55.
New York Times, December 21, 2003
West, Nathanael. Novels & Other Writings. New York: The Library of America, 1997. Page 795.
Yaffe, David. “Go West.” Partisan Review, 66 (Fall 1999). Page 670.
Further reading
Martin, Jay, Nathanael West: The Art of His Life (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970)
External links
Wikisource has original works written by or about: Nathanael West
Books and Writers: Nathanael West (1903-1940)
Literary Traveler: The California Dreams of Nathanael West
Nathanael West and the American Apocalyptic
Nathanael West's Photo & Gravesite
Library of America's notes on West's works
Works by Nathanael West
Novels: The Dream Life of Balso Snell • Miss Lonelyhearts • A Cool Million • The Day of the Locust
Short stories: "Business Deal" • "The Imposter" • "Western Union Boy" • "Mr. Potts of Pottstown" • "The Adventurer" • "Three Eskimos" • "Tibetan Night"
Poetry: "Rondeau" • "Death" • "Burn the Cities"
Plays: Good Hunting (with Joseph Schrank) • Even Stephen (with S.J. Perelman)
Screenplays
(in collaboration with others, unless noted otherwise)
Republic Pictures: Ticket to Paradise • Follow Your Heart • The President's Mystery • Gangs of New York • Jim Hanvey - Detective • Rhythm in the Clouds • Ladies in Distress • Bachelor Girl • Born to be Wild • It Could Happen to You • Orphans of the Street • Stormy Weather
Columbia Pictures: The Squealer • A Cool Million (a screen story; never filmed)
RKO Radio Pictures: Five Came Back • Men Against the Sky (solo screenwriting credit) • Let's Make Music (solo screenwriting credit) • Before the Fact (never filmed) • Stranger on the Third Floor
Universal Studios: I Stole a Million (solo screenwriting credit) • The Spirit of Culver
Bibliography of Nathanael West
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
The Idiot Dentist of Bell Road and his Comic Stooge
I'm thinking of writing a play about a dentist and his office manager. Dentists have inferiority complexes because they see themselves as lower than doctors, so they try to build their weak egos by making more money than the doctors do.
Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr. (March 5, 1870 – October 25, 1902) was an American novelist during the Progressive Era, writing predominantly in the naturalist genre. His notable works include McTeague (1899), The Octopus: A California Story (1901), and The Pit (1903). Although he did not openly support socialism as a political system, his work nevertheless evinces a socialist mentality and influenced socialist and progressive writers such as Upton Sinclair. Like many of his contemporaries, he was profoundly influenced by the advent of Darwinism, and Thomas Henry Huxley's philosophical defense.
Norris was particularly influenced by the optimistic thread of Darwinist philosophy taught by Joseph LeConte. Norris studied under LeConte while at the University of California Berkeley. Through many of his novels, notably McTeague, runs a preoccupation with the notion of the civilized man overcoming the inner "brute," or his animal tendencies. His peculiar, and often confused, brand of Social Darwinism also bears the influence of the early criminologist Cesare Lombroso and the French novelist of the naturalist school, Emile Zola.
Naturalism was a late nineteenth century movement in theater, art and literature that portrayed common values of the ordinary individual. Like its predecessor Realism, Naturalism describes the details of everyday existence, expressing the social milieu of the characters. Within the genre, writers such as Norris concentrated on society's seamier side and the travails of the lower classes. This became the focal point of their writing. In the nineteenth century, Naturalism was heavily influenced by Marxism and evolutionary theory such as Darwinism. As a means of criticizing late nineteenth century social organization, Norris and his contemporaries attempted to apply the scientific rigor and insights of those two theories to artistic representation of society.
Biography
Frank Norris was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1870, and moved to San Francisco at the age of 14. He studied painting in Paris for two years, where he was exposed to the naturalist novels of Emile Zola. He attended the University of California, Berkeley between 1890 and 1894 and then spent a year at Harvard University. He worked as a news correspondent in South Africa in 1895–96, and then an editorial assistant on the San Francisco Wave (1896–97). He worked for McClure's Magazine as a war correspondent in Cuba during the Spanish-American war in 1898. He joined the New York City publishing firm of Doubleday & Page in 1899.
During his time at the University of California, Berkeley Norris was a brother in the Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta. Because of his involvement with a prank during the Class Day Exercises in 1893 the annual alumni dinner held by each Phi Gamma Delta chapter still bears his name.
In 1900 Frank Norris married Jeanette Black. They had a child in 1901. Norris died on October 25, 1902 of peritonitis from a ruptured appendix in San Francisco.[1] This left The Epic of Wheat trilogy unfinished. He was only 32. He was buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, California.
Writings
Norris's work often includes depictions of suffering caused by corrupt and greedy turn-of-the-century corporate monopolies, but Norris has been criticized for the apologetic stance his work seems to take, in the end, toward unbounded capitalism and corporate trusts. In The Octopus, for example, the Pacific and Southwest Railroad is implicated in the suffering and deaths of a number of ranchers in Southern California. At the end of the novel, after a bloody shootout between farmers and railroad agents at one of the ranches (named Los Muertos), readers are encouraged to take a "larger view" that sees that "through the welter of blood at the irrigating ditch, […] the great harvest of Los Muertos rolled like a flood from the Sierras to the Himalayas to feed thousands of starving scarecrows on the barren plains of India." Though free-wheeling market capitalism causes the deaths of many of the characters in the novel, this "larger view always […] discovers the Truth that will, in the end, prevail, and all things, surely, inevitably, resistlessly work together for good."
McTeague
Norris' most popular novel was McTeague the story of a simple man and couple undone by greed. McTeague has done very well for himself, particularly considering his upbringing in a poor miner's family. This all changes when he is introduced to Trina, the cousin of Marcus, McTeague's best friend. Initially, Marcus is courting Trina, but he steps aside after McTeague becomes infatuated with her while working on her teeth. McTeague begins to successfully woo Trina. Shortly after McTeague and Trina have kissed and declared their love for each other, Trina wins $5000 in a lottery. In the ensuing celebration McTeague announces his intention to marry Trina. Marcus feels jealous, knowing he would have gained from Trina's win had he not stood aside.
Trina and McTeague are married in May, and Trina proves to be a parsimonious wife. She insists they should never touch the principal of her $5000, instead relying on dividends, plus his earnings from his dental practice, plus what she earns carving "Noah's Ark" toys for her uncle's shop. Secretly, she accumulates savings in a locked trunk. Though the couple is initially happy, the friendship between Marcus and Mac deteriorates. Marcus demands "his share" of Trina's money, and a fight ensues in which he throws a knife at McTeague.
Catastrophe soon strikes the McTeagues when Marcus reports McTeague to the City for practicing dentistry without a license or degree. He soon loses his practice and the couple is forced to move into successively poorer quarters as the former dentist drifts through a series of jobs. Trina becomes more and more miserly, the couple's life deteriorates and, finally, McTeague leaves. Meanwhile, Trina falls completely under the spell of her money and withdraws it in gold from her uncle's firm so she can admire and handle the coins in her room, at one point spreading them over her bed and rolling around in them. When McTeague returns, she refuses to give him any money. An enraged McTeague beats her to death, takes the money and flees to the mining communities he left years before. Fearing he is being pursued, he makes his way south towards Mexico. Meanwhile, Marcus hears about the murder and goes after McTeague, finally catching him in Death Valley. In the middle of the desert, the two fight over McTeague's remaining water and Trina's $5,000. McTeague kills Marcus, but as he dies, Marcus handcuffs himself to McTeague. The book ends with McTeague helplessly stranded in Death Valley, handcuffed to Marcus's corpse.
Legacy
His short story "A Deal in Wheat" (1903) and the novel The Pit were the basis for the 1909 D.W. Griffith film A Corner in Wheat. Norris' McTeague has been filmed repeatedly, most famously as a 1924 film called Greed by director Erich von Stroheim, which is today considered a classic of silent cinema.[2] An opera by William Bolcolm, based loosely on this 1899 novel, was premiered by Chicago's Lyric Opera in 1992. The work is in two acts, with libretto by Arnold Weinstein and Robert Altman. The Lyric Opera's presentation featured Ben Heppner in the title role and Catherine Malfitano as Trina, the dentist's wife.
My Play Would be called the Idiot Barber of Bell Road and his darling assistant. Zootman would be played by someone who looked like Boris Karloff and his assistant by Sarah Silverstein, who also was Monk's biggest fan and her look and sound alike, Jean Windsor, is Kootman's biggest fan.
Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr. (March 5, 1870 – October 25, 1902) was an American novelist during the Progressive Era, writing predominantly in the naturalist genre. His notable works include McTeague (1899), The Octopus: A California Story (1901), and The Pit (1903). Although he did not openly support socialism as a political system, his work nevertheless evinces a socialist mentality and influenced socialist and progressive writers such as Upton Sinclair. Like many of his contemporaries, he was profoundly influenced by the advent of Darwinism, and Thomas Henry Huxley's philosophical defense.
Norris was particularly influenced by the optimistic thread of Darwinist philosophy taught by Joseph LeConte. Norris studied under LeConte while at the University of California Berkeley. Through many of his novels, notably McTeague, runs a preoccupation with the notion of the civilized man overcoming the inner "brute," or his animal tendencies. His peculiar, and often confused, brand of Social Darwinism also bears the influence of the early criminologist Cesare Lombroso and the French novelist of the naturalist school, Emile Zola.
Naturalism was a late nineteenth century movement in theater, art and literature that portrayed common values of the ordinary individual. Like its predecessor Realism, Naturalism describes the details of everyday existence, expressing the social milieu of the characters. Within the genre, writers such as Norris concentrated on society's seamier side and the travails of the lower classes. This became the focal point of their writing. In the nineteenth century, Naturalism was heavily influenced by Marxism and evolutionary theory such as Darwinism. As a means of criticizing late nineteenth century social organization, Norris and his contemporaries attempted to apply the scientific rigor and insights of those two theories to artistic representation of society.
Biography
Frank Norris was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1870, and moved to San Francisco at the age of 14. He studied painting in Paris for two years, where he was exposed to the naturalist novels of Emile Zola. He attended the University of California, Berkeley between 1890 and 1894 and then spent a year at Harvard University. He worked as a news correspondent in South Africa in 1895–96, and then an editorial assistant on the San Francisco Wave (1896–97). He worked for McClure's Magazine as a war correspondent in Cuba during the Spanish-American war in 1898. He joined the New York City publishing firm of Doubleday & Page in 1899.
During his time at the University of California, Berkeley Norris was a brother in the Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta. Because of his involvement with a prank during the Class Day Exercises in 1893 the annual alumni dinner held by each Phi Gamma Delta chapter still bears his name.
In 1900 Frank Norris married Jeanette Black. They had a child in 1901. Norris died on October 25, 1902 of peritonitis from a ruptured appendix in San Francisco.[1] This left The Epic of Wheat trilogy unfinished. He was only 32. He was buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, California.
Writings
Norris's work often includes depictions of suffering caused by corrupt and greedy turn-of-the-century corporate monopolies, but Norris has been criticized for the apologetic stance his work seems to take, in the end, toward unbounded capitalism and corporate trusts. In The Octopus, for example, the Pacific and Southwest Railroad is implicated in the suffering and deaths of a number of ranchers in Southern California. At the end of the novel, after a bloody shootout between farmers and railroad agents at one of the ranches (named Los Muertos), readers are encouraged to take a "larger view" that sees that "through the welter of blood at the irrigating ditch, […] the great harvest of Los Muertos rolled like a flood from the Sierras to the Himalayas to feed thousands of starving scarecrows on the barren plains of India." Though free-wheeling market capitalism causes the deaths of many of the characters in the novel, this "larger view always […] discovers the Truth that will, in the end, prevail, and all things, surely, inevitably, resistlessly work together for good."
McTeague
Norris' most popular novel was McTeague the story of a simple man and couple undone by greed. McTeague has done very well for himself, particularly considering his upbringing in a poor miner's family. This all changes when he is introduced to Trina, the cousin of Marcus, McTeague's best friend. Initially, Marcus is courting Trina, but he steps aside after McTeague becomes infatuated with her while working on her teeth. McTeague begins to successfully woo Trina. Shortly after McTeague and Trina have kissed and declared their love for each other, Trina wins $5000 in a lottery. In the ensuing celebration McTeague announces his intention to marry Trina. Marcus feels jealous, knowing he would have gained from Trina's win had he not stood aside.
Trina and McTeague are married in May, and Trina proves to be a parsimonious wife. She insists they should never touch the principal of her $5000, instead relying on dividends, plus his earnings from his dental practice, plus what she earns carving "Noah's Ark" toys for her uncle's shop. Secretly, she accumulates savings in a locked trunk. Though the couple is initially happy, the friendship between Marcus and Mac deteriorates. Marcus demands "his share" of Trina's money, and a fight ensues in which he throws a knife at McTeague.
Catastrophe soon strikes the McTeagues when Marcus reports McTeague to the City for practicing dentistry without a license or degree. He soon loses his practice and the couple is forced to move into successively poorer quarters as the former dentist drifts through a series of jobs. Trina becomes more and more miserly, the couple's life deteriorates and, finally, McTeague leaves. Meanwhile, Trina falls completely under the spell of her money and withdraws it in gold from her uncle's firm so she can admire and handle the coins in her room, at one point spreading them over her bed and rolling around in them. When McTeague returns, she refuses to give him any money. An enraged McTeague beats her to death, takes the money and flees to the mining communities he left years before. Fearing he is being pursued, he makes his way south towards Mexico. Meanwhile, Marcus hears about the murder and goes after McTeague, finally catching him in Death Valley. In the middle of the desert, the two fight over McTeague's remaining water and Trina's $5,000. McTeague kills Marcus, but as he dies, Marcus handcuffs himself to McTeague. The book ends with McTeague helplessly stranded in Death Valley, handcuffed to Marcus's corpse.
Legacy
His short story "A Deal in Wheat" (1903) and the novel The Pit were the basis for the 1909 D.W. Griffith film A Corner in Wheat. Norris' McTeague has been filmed repeatedly, most famously as a 1924 film called Greed by director Erich von Stroheim, which is today considered a classic of silent cinema.[2] An opera by William Bolcolm, based loosely on this 1899 novel, was premiered by Chicago's Lyric Opera in 1992. The work is in two acts, with libretto by Arnold Weinstein and Robert Altman. The Lyric Opera's presentation featured Ben Heppner in the title role and Catherine Malfitano as Trina, the dentist's wife.
My Play Would be called the Idiot Barber of Bell Road and his darling assistant. Zootman would be played by someone who looked like Boris Karloff and his assistant by Sarah Silverstein, who also was Monk's biggest fan and her look and sound alike, Jean Windsor, is Kootman's biggest fan.
Kootman's Pro Bono Work
Agenda Item No. 19 Case No. 270380
Dr. Jeffrey H. Kootman
Dr. Kootman was present, along with his surgical assistants Marla and Vivian. This case was the result of an adverse occurrence in which the patient ultimately died. Dr. Kootman stated that he self-reported the adverse occurrence and reported it timely. As far as the treatment is concerned, he still wondered what he could have done differently.
In response to intense questioning by the Board, Dr. Kootman testified that the patient presented to him as per his contract with the State Hospital to treat its patients. The patients sign their own consent forms for treatment. If they appear unable to understand the procedure, Dr. Kootman would not perform the treatment. Dr. Kootman did not immediately call 911 in this instance because the patient was breathing on his own; he was just slow to awaken from the anesthesia. He chose to call the State Hospital first to find out whether they wanted the patient transported back to them or to a hospital. He was told to make the decision and he chose to call 911. After the incident, the security guard who transported the patient from the State Hospital.
Dr. Jeffrey H. Kootman
Dr. Kootman was present, along with his surgical assistants Marla and Vivian. This case was the result of an adverse occurrence in which the patient ultimately died. Dr. Kootman stated that he self-reported the adverse occurrence and reported it timely. As far as the treatment is concerned, he still wondered what he could have done differently.
In response to intense questioning by the Board, Dr. Kootman testified that the patient presented to him as per his contract with the State Hospital to treat its patients. The patients sign their own consent forms for treatment. If they appear unable to understand the procedure, Dr. Kootman would not perform the treatment. Dr. Kootman did not immediately call 911 in this instance because the patient was breathing on his own; he was just slow to awaken from the anesthesia. He chose to call the State Hospital first to find out whether they wanted the patient transported back to them or to a hospital. He was told to make the decision and he chose to call 911. After the incident, the security guard who transported the patient from the State Hospital.
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I am statrting work on a novel called The Idiot Dentist of Bell Road and his Girl Leftovers. It will be based on Dostoyevesky's, The Idiot and his Family of Nitwits, which will include Area for Aging and Adultery, the Attorney General's office, various and sundry lawyers, and other groups which are designed to prey off the weak, sick, old, and mentally infirm. such as churches, synagogues and grave diggers.
Zootman will be portrayed as a modern day Prince Myshkin who could be portrayed by Mel Gibson in a movie and his girl Leftovers by Sylvia Silverstein. His brother Richard will be played by Woody Allen.
Prince Zootman in the story after many harrowing adventures decides to turn over a new leaf and give back his ill-gotten gains from IT to Everyman portrayed by the diabetic 240 pound google bloggster who no one reads, called Everyman in the book.
Subscription and advance orders of the book should be sent to the Arizona State Mental Hospital.
Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google
Actually, the novel should be Based on Frank Norris's 1899 thriller McTeague where the Dentist McTeague is handcuffed to his arch enemy and rival after he kills him in a knockdown fight in Death Valley.
This novel is expecially recommended to incoming ASU student's who want to practice dentistry without a license.
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Lots and and lots of piano and violin music free,
Lots of old books free,
lots of DVDs and Music Tapes free'
Lots of old ideas free,
Free advice,Class action suit against Dr Kootman and United HealthCare
Class action suit against FTC and IT,
Class action suit against Joe Arpaio and Gov. Brewer Free,
Class action suits against anyone you don't like, Free
I am statrting work on a novel called The Idiot Dentist of Bell Road and his Girl Leftovers. It will be based on Dostoyevesky's, The Idiot and his Family of Nitwits, which will include Area for Aging and Adultery, the Attorney General's office, various and sundry lawyers, and other groups which are designed to prey off the weak, sick, old, and mentally infirm. such as churches, synagogues and grave diggers.
Zootman will be portrayed as a modern day Prince Myshkin who could be portrayed by Mel Gibson in a movie and his girl Leftovers by Sylvia Silverstein. His brother Richard will be played by Woody Allen.
Prince Zootman in the story after many harrowing adventures decides to turn over a new leaf and give back his ill-gotten gains from IT to Everyman portrayed by the diabetic 240 pound google bloggster who no one reads, called Everyman in the book.
Subscription and advance orders of the book should be sent to the Arizona State Mental Hospital.
Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google
Actually, the novel should be Based on Frank Norris's 1899 thriller McTeague where the Dentist McTeague is handcuffed to his arch enemy and rival after he kills him in a knockdown fight in Death Valley.
This novel is expecially recommended to incoming ASU student's who want to practice dentistry without a license.
Benjamin Norris writes about the travails of a dentist
Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr. (March 5, 1870 – October 25, 1902) was an American novelist during the Progressive Era, writing predominantly in the naturalist genre. His notable works include McTeague (1899), The Octopus: A California Story (1901), and The Pit (1903). Although he did not openly support socialism as a political system, his work nevertheless evinces a socialist mentality and influenced socialist and progressive writers such as Upton Sinclair. Like many of his contemporaries, he was profoundly influenced by the advent of Darwinism, and Thomas Henry Huxley's philosophical defense.
Norris was particularly influenced by the optimistic thread of Darwinist philosophy taught by Joseph LeConte. Norris studied under LeConte while at the University of California Berkeley. Through many of his novels, notably McTeague, runs a preoccupation with the notion of the civilized man overcoming the inner "brute," or his animal tendencies. His peculiar, and often confused, brand of Social Darwinism also bears the influence of the early criminologist Cesare Lombroso and the French novelist of the naturalist school, Emile Zola.
Naturalism was a late nineteenth century movement in theater, art and literature that portrayed common values of the ordinary individual. Like its predecessor Realism, Naturalism describes the details of everyday existence, expressing the social milieu of the characters. Within the genre, writers such as Norris concentrated on society's seamier side and the travails of the lower classes. This became the focal point of their writing. In the nineteenth century, Naturalism was heavily influenced by Marxism and evolutionary theory such as Darwinism. As a means of criticizing late nineteenth century social organization, Norris and his contemporaries attempted to apply the scientific rigor and insights of those two theories to artistic representation of society.
Biography
Frank Norris was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1870, and moved to San Francisco at the age of 14. He studied painting in Paris for two years, where he was exposed to the naturalist novels of Emile Zola. He attended the University of California, Berkeley between 1890 and 1894 and then spent a year at Harvard University. He worked as a news correspondent in South Africa in 1895–96, and then an editorial assistant on the San Francisco Wave (1896–97). He worked for McClure's Magazine as a war correspondent in Cuba during the Spanish-American war in 1898. He joined the New York City publishing firm of Doubleday & Page in 1899.
During his time at the University of California, Berkeley Norris was a brother in the Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta. Because of his involvement with a prank during the Class Day Exercises in 1893 the annual alumni dinner held by each Phi Gamma Delta chapter still bears his name.
In 1900 Frank Norris married Jeanette Black. They had a child in 1901. Norris died on October 25, 1902 of peritonitis from a ruptured appendix in San Francisco.[1] This left The Epic of Wheat trilogy unfinished. He was only 32. He was buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, California.
McTeague
Norris' most popular novel was McTeague the story of a simple man and couple undone by greed. McTeague has done very well for himself, particularly considering his upbringing in a poor miner's family. This all changes when he is introduced to Trina, the cousin of Marcus, McTeague's best friend. Initially, Marcus is courting Trina, but he steps aside after McTeague becomes infatuated with her while working on her teeth. McTeague begins to successfully woo Trina. Shortly after McTeague and Trina have kissed and declared their love for each other, Trina wins $5000 in a lottery. In the ensuing celebration McTeague announces his intention to marry Trina. Marcus feels jealous, knowing he would have gained from Trina's win had he not stood aside.
Trina and McTeague are married in May, and Trina proves to be a parsimonious wife. She insists they should never touch the principal of her $5000, instead relying on dividends, plus his earnings from his dental practice, plus what she earns carving "Noah's Ark" toys for her uncle's shop. Secretly, she accumulates savings in a locked trunk. Though the couple is initially happy, the friendship between Marcus and Mac deteriorates. Marcus demands "his share" of Trina's money, and a fight ensues in which he throws a knife at McTeague.
Catastrophe soon strikes the McTeagues when Marcus reports McTeague to the City for practicing dentistry without a license or degree. He soon loses his practice and the couple is forced to move into successively poorer quarters as the former dentist drifts through a series of jobs. Trina becomes more and more miserly, the couple's life deteriorates and, finally, McTeague leaves. Meanwhile, Trina falls completely under the spell of her money and withdraws it in gold from her uncle's firm so she can admire and handle the coins in her room, at one point spreading them over her bed and rolling around in them. When McTeague returns, she refuses to give him any money. An enraged McTeague beats her to death, takes the money and flees to the mining communities he left years before. Fearing he is being pursued, he makes his way south towards Mexico. Meanwhile, Marcus hears about the murder and goes after McTeague, finally catching him in Death Valley. In the middle of the desert, the two fight over McTeague's remaining water and Trina's $5,000. McTeague kills Marcus, but as he dies, Marcus handcuffs himself to McTeague. The book ends with McTeague helplessly stranded in Death Valley, handcuffed to Marcus's corpse.
Legacy
His short story "A Deal in Wheat" (1903) and the novel The Pit were the basis for the 1909 D.W. Griffith film A Corner in Wheat. Norris' McTeague has been filmed repeatedly, most famously as a 1924 film called Greed by director Erich von Stroheim, which is today considered a classic of silent cinema.[2] An opera by William Bolcolm, based loosely on this 1899 novel, was premiered by Chicago's Lyric Opera in 1992. The work is in two acts, with libretto by Arnold Weinstein and Robert Altman. The Lyric Opera's presentation featured Ben Heppner in the title role and Catherine Malfitano as Trina, the dentist's wife.
Norris was particularly influenced by the optimistic thread of Darwinist philosophy taught by Joseph LeConte. Norris studied under LeConte while at the University of California Berkeley. Through many of his novels, notably McTeague, runs a preoccupation with the notion of the civilized man overcoming the inner "brute," or his animal tendencies. His peculiar, and often confused, brand of Social Darwinism also bears the influence of the early criminologist Cesare Lombroso and the French novelist of the naturalist school, Emile Zola.
Naturalism was a late nineteenth century movement in theater, art and literature that portrayed common values of the ordinary individual. Like its predecessor Realism, Naturalism describes the details of everyday existence, expressing the social milieu of the characters. Within the genre, writers such as Norris concentrated on society's seamier side and the travails of the lower classes. This became the focal point of their writing. In the nineteenth century, Naturalism was heavily influenced by Marxism and evolutionary theory such as Darwinism. As a means of criticizing late nineteenth century social organization, Norris and his contemporaries attempted to apply the scientific rigor and insights of those two theories to artistic representation of society.
Biography
Frank Norris was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1870, and moved to San Francisco at the age of 14. He studied painting in Paris for two years, where he was exposed to the naturalist novels of Emile Zola. He attended the University of California, Berkeley between 1890 and 1894 and then spent a year at Harvard University. He worked as a news correspondent in South Africa in 1895–96, and then an editorial assistant on the San Francisco Wave (1896–97). He worked for McClure's Magazine as a war correspondent in Cuba during the Spanish-American war in 1898. He joined the New York City publishing firm of Doubleday & Page in 1899.
During his time at the University of California, Berkeley Norris was a brother in the Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta. Because of his involvement with a prank during the Class Day Exercises in 1893 the annual alumni dinner held by each Phi Gamma Delta chapter still bears his name.
In 1900 Frank Norris married Jeanette Black. They had a child in 1901. Norris died on October 25, 1902 of peritonitis from a ruptured appendix in San Francisco.[1] This left The Epic of Wheat trilogy unfinished. He was only 32. He was buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, California.
McTeague
Norris' most popular novel was McTeague the story of a simple man and couple undone by greed. McTeague has done very well for himself, particularly considering his upbringing in a poor miner's family. This all changes when he is introduced to Trina, the cousin of Marcus, McTeague's best friend. Initially, Marcus is courting Trina, but he steps aside after McTeague becomes infatuated with her while working on her teeth. McTeague begins to successfully woo Trina. Shortly after McTeague and Trina have kissed and declared their love for each other, Trina wins $5000 in a lottery. In the ensuing celebration McTeague announces his intention to marry Trina. Marcus feels jealous, knowing he would have gained from Trina's win had he not stood aside.
Trina and McTeague are married in May, and Trina proves to be a parsimonious wife. She insists they should never touch the principal of her $5000, instead relying on dividends, plus his earnings from his dental practice, plus what she earns carving "Noah's Ark" toys for her uncle's shop. Secretly, she accumulates savings in a locked trunk. Though the couple is initially happy, the friendship between Marcus and Mac deteriorates. Marcus demands "his share" of Trina's money, and a fight ensues in which he throws a knife at McTeague.
Catastrophe soon strikes the McTeagues when Marcus reports McTeague to the City for practicing dentistry without a license or degree. He soon loses his practice and the couple is forced to move into successively poorer quarters as the former dentist drifts through a series of jobs. Trina becomes more and more miserly, the couple's life deteriorates and, finally, McTeague leaves. Meanwhile, Trina falls completely under the spell of her money and withdraws it in gold from her uncle's firm so she can admire and handle the coins in her room, at one point spreading them over her bed and rolling around in them. When McTeague returns, she refuses to give him any money. An enraged McTeague beats her to death, takes the money and flees to the mining communities he left years before. Fearing he is being pursued, he makes his way south towards Mexico. Meanwhile, Marcus hears about the murder and goes after McTeague, finally catching him in Death Valley. In the middle of the desert, the two fight over McTeague's remaining water and Trina's $5,000. McTeague kills Marcus, but as he dies, Marcus handcuffs himself to McTeague. The book ends with McTeague helplessly stranded in Death Valley, handcuffed to Marcus's corpse.
Legacy
His short story "A Deal in Wheat" (1903) and the novel The Pit were the basis for the 1909 D.W. Griffith film A Corner in Wheat. Norris' McTeague has been filmed repeatedly, most famously as a 1924 film called Greed by director Erich von Stroheim, which is today considered a classic of silent cinema.[2] An opera by William Bolcolm, based loosely on this 1899 novel, was premiered by Chicago's Lyric Opera in 1992. The work is in two acts, with libretto by Arnold Weinstein and Robert Altman. The Lyric Opera's presentation featured Ben Heppner in the title role and Catherine Malfitano as Trina, the dentist's wife.
Friday, August 27, 2010
Here's My Problem
Article: United Health Care: Huge Fines & Scandals
United Health Care, Inc. (UHC) has seen better days. Insurance Commissioners from California and Texas have slapped the health care provider with huge fines and its former Chief Executive Officer was replaced in 2006 over a stock option scandal.
Fines & Scandals
Many states have sanctioned the Minnesota based insurer for poor claims handling processes over the past five years and it has recently been hit with several very large fines. In November 2007, the Texas Department of Insurance imposed a $4.4 million fine against UHC for prompt payment violations. In January 2008, California’s Department of Managed Health Care fined PacifiCare, which was acquired by UHC in 2005, $3.5 million for poor claim handling. In the same action, California’s Insurance Commissioner, Steven Poizner, cited UHC for over 130,000 claim handling violations and said that the insurer may be subject to $1.3 billion in penalties.
Fines aren’t the only problem the insurer has been facing. In late 2006, UHC’s Chief Executive Officer, Dr. William McGuire, left the company after a scandal broke out over backdated stock options allegedly worth over $1.5 billion. McGuire, and several dozen others in UHC’s senior management team, resigned or were terminated around the same time for similar issues.
Insurer blames acquisition process
UHC has blamed much of its current claim handling problems on recent acquisitions and has admitted that the transition process has been more difficult than expected. According to the company’s website, www.uhc.com, it acquired the following companies in 2004 and 2005:
2005:
PacifiCare
Neighborhood Health Partnership
John Deere Health Care
2004:
Oxford Health Plans
Definity Health
Golden Rule Health Plans
However, industry analysts don’t necessarily agree. They claim that UHC should have had a process in place before making acquisitions.
Resulting problems
Whatever the reason for UHC’s claim handling issues, the problems that have resulted are not doing anything to improve the insurer’s image. Here are some examples from two California news agencies that show how the company’s actions have affected doctors and patients alike:
From the Sacramento Bee:
A Sacramento-area surgeon couldn't schedule surgeries for more than six months because the insurer simply took too long to enter his contract in its computer system.
A policyholder reportedly spent 11 months trying to get his claims paid for his family and their autistic child. His wife, who needed an EKG, had to keep postponing the test because they feared that they would never pay their claims.
From the San Francisco Gate:
PacifiCare patients of a pediatrician in Modesto received letters erroneously telling them the doctor was no longer in their network, when he really was.
A San Diego area doctor reported that PacifiCare simply could not keep track of claims information or adequately respond to his complaints.
Insurance companies need to have processes in place to care for their policyholders. If your insurance company has denied your valid claim or acted in bad faith, contact an attorney whose practice focuses on insurance issues. To contact a qualified attorney for a free, no-obligation consultation, please click here.
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United Health Care, Inc. (UHC) has seen better days. Insurance Commissioners from California and Texas have slapped the health care provider with huge fines and its former Chief Executive Officer was replaced in 2006 over a stock option scandal.
Fines & Scandals
Many states have sanctioned the Minnesota based insurer for poor claims handling processes over the past five years and it has recently been hit with several very large fines. In November 2007, the Texas Department of Insurance imposed a $4.4 million fine against UHC for prompt payment violations. In January 2008, California’s Department of Managed Health Care fined PacifiCare, which was acquired by UHC in 2005, $3.5 million for poor claim handling. In the same action, California’s Insurance Commissioner, Steven Poizner, cited UHC for over 130,000 claim handling violations and said that the insurer may be subject to $1.3 billion in penalties.
Fines aren’t the only problem the insurer has been facing. In late 2006, UHC’s Chief Executive Officer, Dr. William McGuire, left the company after a scandal broke out over backdated stock options allegedly worth over $1.5 billion. McGuire, and several dozen others in UHC’s senior management team, resigned or were terminated around the same time for similar issues.
Insurer blames acquisition process
UHC has blamed much of its current claim handling problems on recent acquisitions and has admitted that the transition process has been more difficult than expected. According to the company’s website, www.uhc.com, it acquired the following companies in 2004 and 2005:
2005:
PacifiCare
Neighborhood Health Partnership
John Deere Health Care
2004:
Oxford Health Plans
Definity Health
Golden Rule Health Plans
However, industry analysts don’t necessarily agree. They claim that UHC should have had a process in place before making acquisitions.
Resulting problems
Whatever the reason for UHC’s claim handling issues, the problems that have resulted are not doing anything to improve the insurer’s image. Here are some examples from two California news agencies that show how the company’s actions have affected doctors and patients alike:
From the Sacramento Bee:
A Sacramento-area surgeon couldn't schedule surgeries for more than six months because the insurer simply took too long to enter his contract in its computer system.
A policyholder reportedly spent 11 months trying to get his claims paid for his family and their autistic child. His wife, who needed an EKG, had to keep postponing the test because they feared that they would never pay their claims.
From the San Francisco Gate:
PacifiCare patients of a pediatrician in Modesto received letters erroneously telling them the doctor was no longer in their network, when he really was.
A San Diego area doctor reported that PacifiCare simply could not keep track of claims information or adequately respond to his complaints.
Insurance companies need to have processes in place to care for their policyholders. If your insurance company has denied your valid claim or acted in bad faith, contact an attorney whose practice focuses on insurance issues. To contact a qualified attorney for a free, no-obligation consultation, please click here.
Articles & Information:
Allstate’s Secret Documents Revealed in $1.4B
Trial lnsurance Companies May Be Sharing Your Personal Information
Insurance Rescissions: A Damaging Practice
WA State Passes Tough Bad Faith Insurance Referendum
Vew articles
Port of New Orleans Sues Insurer over Unpaid Katrina Claims
Louisiana Sues Insurers for Bad Faith over Katrina Claims
State Farm Loses First Federal Katrina Case
Allstate Must Reveal Secret Documents
Teen Dies after CIGNA Refuses To Pay for Transplant
Allstate Paying $25,000 a Day for Not Producing McKinsey Report
California Insurers Will Pay $7.2M for Scamming Seniors
Consumer Legislation May Limit Mandatory Arbitration
Suing HMOs for Denying Care: The Controversy Continues
Texas Mutual Accused of Fraud
$8M Punitive Damages Award against State Farm Upheld
Allstate Suspended From Doing Business in Florida
New Study Accuses Insurers of Overpricing and Underpaying
PacifiCare Faces $1.3 Billion in Penalties for Over 130,000 Violations
California Coming Down On Insurers ‘Like A Ton Of Bricks’
Florida’s Governor Believes Allstate Is Gouging Residents
Mississippi AG Moves Forward With New State Farm Investigation
American Fidelity Ordered To Pay $10M in Punitive Damages
Allianz Life Agrees To $10M Settlement for Deceiving Seniors
NY Attorney General Accuses Nation’s Largest Insurers of Fraud
AIG & General Re Insurance Executives Found Guilty Of Fraud and Conspiracy
Allstate Releases 150,000 McKinsey Documents
Fireman’s Fund Hit With $5.3M Bad Faith Insurance Verdict
Can Insurance Companies Fund and Administer Health & Disability Plans?
Insurer Unum Group Reverses 42% Of Previously Denied Disability Claims
Central United Life Insurance Class Action: Policyholders Have Until June 3rd to Opt Out
Insurer Balance Billing: A Practice That Leaves Policyholders in the Dark
Insurers Ordered To Pay $60M in Bad Faith Disability Claim
Texas Bad Faith Insurance Lawsuit Awards Restaurant $4.2M
Big Insurance Companies Vs. You: Tipping The Scales In Your Favor
Insurance Company's Bad Faith Tactics: You Simply Won't Believe This One
South Carolina Cancer Patients Awarded $7.8M For Bad Faith Insurance Practices
Senate Investigates Health Insurers’ Use Of “Reasonable & Customary” Payments
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