Word: credo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mendip, a discharged soldier of 15th century England, is fed up with the stupidity of mankind and the dreariness of existence. he barges into the home of the Mayer of Cool Clary one April afternoon, and asks to be hanged. This unprecedented request is ignored by the mayor, whose credo throughout the entire play is "everything will be taken case of at the proper time...
...president's collar" of 20 gold & silver links and a pendant medallion with the arms of Elihu Yale, received the charter, the seal, and the keys of the university "to cherish and defend." Finally, in the tradition of his predecessors, he stepped to the lectern to declare his credo...
Prince X (in the book he is nameless) delivers his credo in a singing, quasi-biblical monologue. He warns his tribe against becoming "sedentaries" and cherishing worldly goods, cautions them that man's spirit, not logic and reason, must govern their lives. So far, Prince X sounds almost like a Christian. He is not; he is a Nietzschean. He disdains pity and charity, preaches the importance of the here & now and a disregard for the future. His rule is absolute and his subjects may not question him: "He who questions is seeking, primarily, the abyss...
...idea had come to him while recovering from serious illness. U.S. book circles were fascinated. As the story had it, Hemingway wanted to get some things down on paper that he had never managed to say before; Across the River was going to be the Hemingway credo in a nutshell. When a magazine version of the book appeared in Cosmopolitan earlier this year, it raised other questions. Wasn't the novel's hero a pretty thinly disguised version of Hemingway himself? What was Hemingway trying to say about Allied commanders in World War II? And-in view...
...credo is to write as well as he can about things that he knows and feels deeply about...