Word: moren
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Usher Moren's "II Vecchio" is such a fine parody of Hemingway that it is a shame Mr. Moren intended it as a serious story. A situation in which three barbers mourn the fate of a fourth whom age has forced back to the last chair in the shop is a true parody of all Hemingway's aging bullfighters and fishermen, especially when Mr. Moren has someone say, "He is an old man and cuts well and it is truly a terrible thing...
...should also be pointed out that Hemingway's Italians spoke in this peculiarly stylized way because he gave a fairly literal translation from the Italian. As Mr. Moren's story takes place not in Italy but truly in another country, this seems not only out of place but incorrect. At least the barbers in the Harvard Barber Shop don't speak English that way--and I, for one, can't follow their Italian, infrequent...
Leading the group was Cadet Col. Daniel A. Kavanaugh. Others were: Douglas K. Boyd, Thomas Campbell, Sidney L. Cimmet, Robert J. Donahue, Carl A. Goldman, Richard E. Goldsmith, Michael Lay, John W. McNealy II, David W. Maher, Usher A. Moren, George M. Notter, Jr., Howard P. Smith, and Robert B. Stimpson...