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...Winnick has collected an extensive selection of the letters of this extraordinary man. The impressive range of correspondents reflects MacLeish's wide-ranging interests and his knack for getting involved with the public of his time. He was particularly close to Amy Lowell, Dean Acheson, and Ernest Hemingway. He wrote often to Henry Luce, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, and T. S. Eliot '10, and occasionally to Felix Frankfurter. J. Robert Oppenheimer and F.D.R. And the letters are full of MacLeish's articulate and often beautifully phrased observations on everything from political campaign strategies to the function of poetry. What emerges...
...individual poet as part of a tradition of similar explorations into the same basic problems of human experience. Accordingly, his poetry reflects little of the stylistic experimentation prevalent in the work of contemporaries like Marianne Moore or e.e, cummings. He expresses this philosophy in a letter to Hemingway, arguing...
...Wave Format," the story of Sabrina and Edwin, Mason rarely says more than is necessary to convey what Hemingway called "the real thing, the sequence of motion and fact which made the emotion." Sabrina's enthusiasms, her fennel toothpaste and herbal deodorant, leave Edwin amazed and uneasy. Self-knowledge comes hard. He dimly recalls his knockabout past and realizes that he has not been an adventurer but "has gone through life rather blindly, without much pain or sense of loss." Only on his bus is he in complete control, jolting his handicapped audience with Jim Morrison's Light...
...assessment of him. A little humor or ribbing of Newman, the liberal who lives in an East Side Manhattan apartment, a country place in Connecticut and a home in Beverly Hills could have washed down that goo. Your story reminded me of Zelda Fitzgerald's remark to Ernest Hemingway upon seeing Al Jolson, "Don't you think he's greater than Jesus...
...Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962): I tried to do what I did in the TV show, and that wasn...