Word: bullfighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...critics. His last novel, A Farewell to Arms, received both Hollywood and high-brow huzzas. His latest book, not aimed at so wide an audience, may alienate many of his new disciples, but it is a genuinely Hemingway production. Death in the Afternoon is all about bullfighting: a complete, compendious, appreciative guide. If you have never seen a bullfight Death in the Afternoon may not turn you into an aficionado (fan), but it should make you aware that Spain's national sport is something more than a merely brutal spectacle...
...book Hemingway illustrates and comments, not always with that reverence expected of devotees. "While here we have the ox built for beef and for service who might have been president with that face if he had started in some other line of work." Before he had seen any bullfights himself, Hemingway had the usual Anglo-Saxon prejudice against them, but ''I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death." Before he had seen many corridas he forgot his prejudice, became first interested...
After reading 80 angry letters of protest, William J. Egan, director of Public Safety in Newark, N. J., last week told Sidney Franklin (Frumkin), Brooklyn toreador, that he could not hold a bullfight in New Jersey. Toreador Franklin had planned one for next week. He wanted to show U. S. citizens how he did it in Spain. He promised that it would be a gentle fight. He planned to use a rubber sword, pad the bull's horns. He said he would wave his cape and let the bull run at him. But not unless it was absolutely necessary...
When Mrs. Fiske heard about Director Egan's decision she said: "My compliments to Mr. Egan and the Mayor. The people of the world will be informed that the United States will not even tolerate a burlesque bullfight...
Like a red cloak at a bullfight was the red morocco brief case which Chancellor Heinrich ("Iron Cross") Brüning carried ostentatiously under his arm last week as he entered the Reichstag to put his new Cabinet (TIME, April 7) to the test-a vote of confidence...