Word: careers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...filial. His father had hopes of his becoming a doctor; his mother, artistically inclined herself, wanted him to be a cellist and rigidly enforced hours of supposed practice in which non-musical Hemingway, by "just sitting thinking," now says he gained most impetus for his writing career...
...major part of the book is given over to Morgan's career. This, with its hard, brisk sea-scenes, its sudden shocks of death, is uniformly convincing. Interspersed in the chronicle, however, are snapshot glimpses of life on its various planes on the Keys: War veterans sent to build the Keys highway, punch-drunk and turbulent, brawling in one of the bars; writers from the artists' colony amorously intriguing; rich yachtsmen, cabdrivers. These candidoes, written too deliberately from the "slice-of-life" point of view, too fortuitously presented in the plot, are not always so fortunate. But most...
...experiences, Author Hemingway speaks modestly, says usually, "I spent most of the time in hospitals." He carried this attitude so far that when his War-novel (A Farewell to Arms) was being cinematized he took pains to deny all publicity stories of a more glamorous military career, scotched plans for a "world premiere" at Piggot, Ark. (where he happened to be staying), by fleeing the town before the film's arrival...
...lasting influence both on Hemingway's style and point of view. The friendships were not so lasting. "Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it," summed up Hemingway in his early career. "Gertrude was always right." The Stein-Hemingway feud has been one of the most persistent literary squabbles of the generation...
Central character of the novel is Napoleon. Heroine is his Polish mistress, 20-year-old, blonde, serious-minded Marie Walewska. By rubberizing history, pseudonymous English Author Pilgrim contrives a cinematic tale based on the ten months which marked the height of Napoleon's career, the beginning of his skid toward Waterloo as a result of his Spanish campaign...