Word: crackups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accounts by previous memoirists or by Hemingway himself. Baker's approach-a kind of uncompromised sympathy-grants Hemingway in abundance the personal virtues of charm, impulsive kindness, physical courage and even "grace under pressure"-if the pressure did not threaten him too directly. But long before his final crackup, Baker makes evident, Hemingway felt habitually threatened. The he-man swagger and the toothy grin camouflaged a soul less in the family of Jack London than of Edgar Allan Poe. Hemingway's life, like his writing, contained, in the words of Critic Edmund Wilson, "the undruggable consciousness of something...
...just goes to show that it takes more than some horrid divorce-court testimony by ex-Wife Dyan Cannon to dim the ardor of Gary Grant's devoted legions. There he was, three weeks after that nasty automobile crackup, bounding out of a Queens, New York, hospital looking nowhere near his 64 years and flashing that famous grin as several hundred shrieking females gathered to wish him well. "I feel great," said Gary, and proved it by planting a kiss on the cheek of Sister Thomas Francis, executive director of the hospital. "Oh, my," said Sister Francis, blushing...
...year-old girl. Father, a charming bookworm with a sense of history, seems like the only decent refuge, the one who places truth and integrity above success and money. Even Laurence's once sweet adultery now seems merely "functionalism." Small wonder that she is heading toward a crackup...
...been at it since 1946 (at N.Y.U., Cooper Union, Pratt, Bennington and now Hunter), is still "an exercise in sheer hysteria. I sometimes think I'm going to pass out before I get going." Friends' trials move him deeply. In addition, since a 1961 auto crackup, he has developed a blood disease that causes frequent nosebleeds, and fogging out. What mainly sustains him nowadays is the heady thrill of success, the joy of being called upon to create bigger and more exciting monuments-and alcohol. He consumes at least half a bottle of Old Crow or vodka...
...drawbacks: the author, for one thing, has no ear for language. But her portraits of five women inmates of a mental institution touch deeper than the ear. Each of the women is observed at a different stage of madness. The first is seen in the few hours before her crackup, as she slips through her psychiatrist's fingers and breaks. The last prepares to face the world from which she retreated 13 months before. The episodes are separate novellas, and their separateness quietly states the isolation of insanity. In combination, they deepen and become a novel...