Word: papas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comes the fifth and, its publisher promises, "last" of Papa's posthumous performances: True at First Light (Scribner; 320 pages; $26). This so-called fictional memoir will officially appear on July 21, the 100th anniversary of Hemingway's birth...
Hemingway purists have also bristled at the commercialism that has swelled during Papa's centennial year. Credit--or blame--for much of this activity goes to the author's three sons, who some years ago signed with a licensing agent to control the use of the Hemingway name. The latest venture to win the sons' approval is the Ernest Hemingway Collection from the Thomasville furniture company. Among the offerings: the Pamplona Sofa and the Kilimanjaro...
...What Papa would have thought of all this is anyone's guess. But purists should remember that Hemingway was never shy about reaping the perks and rewards of his increasingly famous name. In fact, the 1953 East African safari that became the genesis of True at First Light began as a celebrity assignment for Look magazine. And the Kenyan government, worried that the Mau Mau uprisings would discourage tourism, welcomed Hemingway's visit and the publicity it would generate by naming him an honorary game warden...
...Auschwitz, Germany. To Latin America he brought his intense love of the individual soul -? and his formidable anti-Communist and anti-totalitarian credentials ?- to denounce (and effectively wipe out) Liberation Theology, a Marxist-leaning Catholicism swelling up in the land of Che. Just last January it was Cuba, Il Papa face-to-face with El Jefe, quarrelling (rather adroitly) not so much with Castro?s vestigial brand of communism but with the low state of Cubans under it. "When was the last time a pope really seemed like a major player on the world stage?" asks Van Biema. John Paul...
...matter of days, she was replicating herself all over cyberspace--from Berlin to Beijing, from the U.S. Marine Corps to the office of Republican Congressman Jim Talent--causing shutdowns in more than 300 computer networks. Worse still, her freely available source code soon spawned copycat viruses, like Papa and Mad Cow. Suddenly, Melissa wasn't sexy, crazy or even cool anymore. She was a menace to wired society...