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...Earnest Hemingway: An American Byron"--thus does Clifton Fadiman title his latest article for the Nation. As he proceeds to support, the thesis implied in the title, his readers are introduced to a fairly new, and very interesting estimate of themselves. Due to the peculiar way in which he symbolizes the present generation, states Mr. Fadiman, there has sprung up about Homingway "a real contemporary here myth." The similarity between Byron and Hemingway, says the author, lies in the fact that they were both post-war men, and that "in the heart of both lies a tragic sense of defeat...
...mass in perception and appreciation, there last week appeared a quarterly titled USA. Its progenitors: "The group centering informally around the Centaur Bookshop ( Philadelphia)." Of the first edition, 2,000 copies were printed, price: $1 the copy. Lead-off article for Vol. 1 No. 1 was by Clifton C. Fadiman, editorial chief of Simon & Schuster (Manhattan publishers), contributor to The Nation. With lofty tolerance, he set about denning the Republic's culture and U S A's aim. Said he (italics...
...pace and on the plane thus set by Critic Fadiman, USA proceeded to present in rapid, sure-fire fashion, a mixture of the nation's cultural foibles and virtues. Readers had no difficulty guessing which material was placed by the editors in which category...
...some aura of the supernatural clings to the absurd magnificence of their palaces and their crimes. Now the wildest of them all, Nero, the Bloody Poet, is imagined not by a historian but by a novelist. Author Kostolanyi, a Hungarian who writes in German, well translated by Clifton P. Fadiman, makes him a weak man, a pathetic youth unable to learn how to live, "a bad poet and a bad ruler." Whether this is what Nero was in truth, no man can say. But his character, so presented, has the truth of fiction, the illusion of reality. The book reaches...