Word: clingingness
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Author Ernest Hemingway used to pour himself into his letters-and never with less inhibition than when writing to a young Italian woman named Adriana Ivancich in the early 1950s. "Miss Mary always regarded how I felt about you as a cosa sagrada [sacred thing]," the novelist wrote. "It was...
Kafka country? No, contemporary Africa, where injustice and revenge are concrete forces, not metaphors for alienated modern man. The book is set in a village hovering on the brink of civilization, and the topsy-turvy quality of its life is caught so expertly by the author that terrifying and absurd...
Whenever black puffs of antiaircraft fire blossomed above the horizon, crowds clinging precariously to trucks careened off towards the action, hoping to see a captured Israeli pilot. Radio Cairo reported that one downed pilot had pulled his pistol to threaten a band of fellahin in the delta town of Zagazig...
Sir: While the points made by your Essay "On Suicide" [Nov. 25] were understandable and at times even brilliant, you have riot come up with one statement in defense of life under any conditions as Hemingway did against it: "Life on my terms or I don't want it...
Gradual Change. Next to Scandinavia's social problems, Connery believes, foreigners least understand its approach to welfare. Actually, Scandinavia is no longer so extraordinary in this respect, since all the more prosperous West European countries are as much welfare states as Sweden or Denmark. "The U.S., while clinging to...