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...exciting time") and Poet John Ciardi ("When you're on a mission and you saw a Japanese plane go down, you cheered. This was a football game"). One might also include Irving Goff, Spanish Civil War veteran, OSS operative and the reputed model for Robert Jordan in Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls...
...Josie, I'd love you whether you wrote or not," said Saul Bellow in a letter to Josephine Herbst. He had plenty of company. During her long literary life Herbst attracted such disparate admirers as Maxwell Anderson, Katherine Anne Porter, Ernest Hemingway, James T. Farrell and John Cheever. When she died in 1969 at the age of 76, Critic Alfred Kazin, who had once dismissed her work as "desperate pedestrianism," wrote that he had never known any other writer who was "so solid, so joyous, so giving...
...simply beautiful. In a way, the Games extend definitions of beauty. Why is synchronized swimming no more beautiful than the bulging grimace of a weight lifter? Art rarely pins these things down. Painters miss it. Writers do worse, with exceptions such as Mailer on boxing, Updike on golf, Hemingway on a bobsled run: "A bob shot past, all the crew moving in time, and as it rushed at express train speed for the first turn, the crew all cried 'Ga-a-a-a-r!' and the bob roared in an icy smother around the curve and dropped off down...
...tears that streaked down her face were not in the script, but Mariel Hemingway's testimony at a hearing before the U.S. House of Representatives was as moving as any Hollywood drama. The granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway, who owns a cabin near her home town of Ketchum, Idaho, spoke against a bill that would preserve only 526,000 of Idaho's 8 million acres of wilderness. Hemingway, 22, at first read calmly from her prepared statement, but broke down when she got to a quotation from a monument to her grandfather. As she had said earlier, "My testimony...
...crank out zingy copy for Chevrolet trucks." By 1967 he had sold his novel Hombre to Hollywood and was liberated from office routine. One divorce, five children and 20 novels later, he arrived at his pared-down adrenal style. By now, he feels, he deserves the signed photograph of Hemingway that decorates his study. Says he: "I learned to write from For Whom the Bell Tolls." But, he concedes, "my attitude's different. I see humor everywhere. The fact is, I'm probably closer to Richard Pryor." The accuracy of his work comes from dogged research. Glitz...