Word: badly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ernest the Bad lived in Key West, drank too much, and kept remarrying. Instead of getting his work done, he was forever playing at great white hunter or bravebull aficionado or none-too-accurate war correspondent. When Ernest the Bad did write, the crisp sentences came out flabby, self-parodying. Finally, he turned himself from writer into public figure: "Papa," the self-indulgent joker whom his embarrassed admirers couldn't drag offstage and back to his Ernest-the-Good writing desk...
...material to fashion the first solid, cohesive and convincingly authentic account of a lifetime most often presented in the past in fragments by partisan observers. The book's great additional merit is that it forces readers to take Hemingway whole. After Baker, Ernest the Good and Ernest the Bad will never again be quite so neatly, so conveniently and so misleadingly separated...
...times he wonders what's up himself. A love affair with a Jewess named Leah only further confuses him-Newby is not about to leave him so easy an out. Townrow is shot at, charged by a mob and jailed. In between disasters he is plagued by bad dreams and a virus with a 102° fever...
...Saturday, April 6, my training began to blossom. I was running boathouse circuits again, and I was a bad enough cox, ranking third, to have almost every afternoon off and thus lots of running time. I averaged 12 miles the next five days, but then a new problem: my calves tightened...
...calf was really bad news, but here was a right turn. I could tell that I had run 100 yards and then turn left for the final 100. So I poured it on and my calf got all better. No one was around me so I coudn't make any attempts to pass to thrill the bigger crowd. Nor could I be passed...