Word: hemingways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Books, as Francis Bacon might have remarked, are made for classical immortality, ephemeral existence culminating in tired waiting on the 98 cent stand in countless drug store emporiums, or immediate descent into oblivion and the macerating machine. Ernest Hemingway has escaped the latter fate, clearly; his readers of today are those who will decide whether he is to go down through the ages in the blurry print and sedate bindings of Everyman's edition. And this morning the Vagabond will also rise to present his luminous countenance before Dr. Carpenter in Sever 7, where the creater of tired young...
...Ernest Hemingway", Dr. F. I. Carpenter, Sever...
...there this question of literature. There's "Vile Bodies" by Waugh, a book with the real smell of the earth in it. Or was it that Dam sun-like book about china? Amusing stuff, earth. Then there are post-war novels, thrilling they are, every hundred of them. Did Hemingway write "A Farewell to Arms" for nothing? Now there's a question. When America started there were people like Washington, Adams, and Jefferson around. Are they around now? Nope. Still, its pretty exciting...
Hard-boiled Writer Ernest Hemingway started something when he published his first popular book (The Sun Also Rises]: earnest critics have thought they discerned among his imitators the beginnings of a School. But the two most outstanding followers of Hemingway, William Riley Burnett and Dashiell Hammett, seem to have been not so much started by his example as let loose by it. Both have a manner that owes its start, perhaps, to Hemingway; but both have branched off into a patented, individual style of storytelling. No pioneers of language, they have been content to follow their leader into new country...
...Boston that forbade Mary Garden to appear in Richard Strauss's Salome. It was Boston that banned the sale of Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy. It was Boston that kept Scribner's Magazine off the stands for printing the final chapters of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. The list is endless, but Boston's tireless censorship is generally directed at the stage and the printed page. Not for many months has it bothered with sculpture and the fine arts...