Word: hemingways
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...mood, or a morsel of truth, or a flash of humor, but the whole story-characters, moods, truths and lies. This is so not only because the stories could be retold as good anecdotes, but because the author is a master illusionist who can create, as Hemingway did, an impression of absolute reality from the sparsest of materials...
...south that his new play. The Night of the Iguana, is set in Acapulco, with Patrick O'Neal playing a defrocked minister turned tourist guide serving as a psychological shepherd for Bette Davis and Margaret Leighton (Dec. 28). A. E. Hotchner, whose text adaptations of Ernest Hemingway short stories have been scattered across the past two television seasons, has prepared The Short Happy Life for Broadway, based on 15 Hemingway stories, with a cast that includes Rod Steiger and Salome Jens (week of Nov. 27). Daughter of Silence, set in Italy and centered in the murder of a mayor...
While Cuba's cultural commissars pondered converting Ernest Hemingway's 13-acre Finca Vigia into a museum, his widow, Mary Welsh Hemingway, was more concerned about his literary monument. Spending what may be her last weeks at their longtime Cuban home, Mrs. Hemingway, as per her husband's request, destroyed personal papers, culled his "hundreds of thousands of typewritten pages" for marginal notes like "burn this" or "this is pretty good" as a guide to what to publish and what to let perish. Among the manuscripts that Mary Hemingway may or may not ever release: The Dangerous...
...commended for your fine obituary on Ernest Hemingway [July 14]. You have captured his lasting contribution to our language and literature with the objectivity and good sense that Hemingway himself would have admired...
...past, says Author Porter, peering through the wake of two decades: "I've survived but I certainly haven't flourished. I think Hemingway beat me to it by about twenty paces. Honestly, I am so tired." Tired or not, she still has plans for the future. "I would like to write about two wonderful old slaves who were my grandmother's companions, but someone is always giving a low name to good things and I suppose the N.A.A.C.P. would say I was glorifying Uncle Tomism...