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...F.D.R. understood. The judge understood. Lowell was sentenced to a year and a day but served only five months, part of it in Manhattan's West Street jail. He later wrote of his experience with jocular ferocity: I was a fire-breathing Catholic C.O., and made my manic statement, telling off the state and president, and then sat waiting sentence in the bull pen beside a Negro boy with curlicues of marijuana in his hair...
...last Hemingway is Papa running off at the mouth, unzipping his ego in public, and writing manic sentences...
...Manic Sentences. He eventually tired of his self-imposed isolation. Heming way the North American Newspaper Alliance correspondent went to Spain to cover the Civil War, and there he did his best reporting. His words wept at the barbarism of battle. "The com pany had gone on [toward Teruel] and this was the phase where the dead did not rate stretchers, so we lifted him, still limp and warm, to the side of the road and left him with his serious waxen face where tanks would not bother him now nor anything else and went on into town." A wounded...
...physical ailments are amply documented-notably in his own writings, which fill some 100 volumes in the authoritative Weimar Edition-he has provided a wide target for psychoanalysts and playwrights. A successful case in point is John Osborne's Luther, in which the reformer came across as a manic-depressive lout, whose rebellion against the church was motivated by a father fixation and a bad case of constipation...
What mind can compass, what tongue relate the baroque doings which surround a Hasty Pudding opening--that manic cross between a mid-ocean gala and a run on the bank? The searchlights, the celebrities, the spilled drinks, the crowd's frenzied yelps of mutual recognition: the scene suggests unwitting passage into a claustrophobe's vision of the Apocalypse...