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Critics came in for rougher treatment. Edmund Wilson boosted young Hemingway's career in the '20s. By the time of To Have and Have Not, The Fifth Column and For Whom the Bell Tolls, the critic was using phrases like "a growing antagonism to women" and "the all-too-perfect felicity of a youthful erotic dream." Hemingway responded to his editor Maxwell Perkins. Wilson, he writes, "reads most interestingly on all the things one does not know about. On the things one knows about truly he is stupid, inaccurate, uninformative and pretentious. But because he is so pretentious...
...writing fantasies and adventure stories at age seven. He published his first pieces when he was 11 years old in a Chilean school publication, his first essay in Mexico when he was 13 years old, and his first novel, The Good Conscience, while a law student in his early 20s...
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut--Clearing Friday, Fair Saturday and Sunday, Overnight lows in the mid 20s to low 30s. Daytime highs mainly in the 40s. It'll be beer-drinking, rollerskating weather...
L.B.J. might have appreciated the upstart actor turned politician. Some indestructible core of optimism that was forged in the mad '20s and the Great Depression surged in Johnson, as it does in Reagan. One night Johnson ordered his aide Richard Goodwin to redesign the U.S. to abolish disease, ignorance and poverty. Goodwin wrote it out on his Smith-Corona, and Johnson gave it voice at the University of Michigan stadium. Reagan was a bit more in scale than the flamboyant Texan last week, but his people in his arena, a joint session of Congress, cheered and whistled...
...room dominated by scrawled names and a huge black cutout of a man who repeatedly swings a hammer. Whatever its meaning, this piece is visually more interesting than the "environment" that greets one on the fourth floor of the Whitney, Robert Wilson's chic '20s-style set for his short piece of dramatic gibberish from 1977, / Was Sitting on My Patio This Guy Appeared I Thought I Was Hallucinating. With Borofsky, at least, you do think you are hallucinating. But then, why should a stage set not be "sculpture"? In the Whitney, pretty well anything that...