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...Thar was three bars: Mama Bar, Papa Bar, and Baby Bar. They was all sittin' on a block of ice. Mama Bar said 'I got a tale to tell.' Papa Bar said 'I got a tale to tell.' Baby Bar looked up and said 'My tale is told...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Those Back-to-School Blues | 9/7/1986 | See Source »

Former Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Velucci, the city councilor who led the protesters to the river, said he thought the 350th birthday party was "just a big monstrous campaign to raise money for Harvard." He added, "Papa Reagan has dried up the well, so they've got to get the dough from somewhere...

Author: By Jennifer L. Mnookin, | Title: All of Cambridge Is Not Celebrating; Harvard Policies Draw Local Protest | 9/4/1986 | See Source »

...life belonged as much to the history of publicity as to the history of literature. He was a splendid writer who became his own worst creation, a hoax and a bore. He ended by being one of the most famous men in the world, white-bearded Mr. Papa. He stopped observing and started performing. He sentimentalized and pontificated and lied and bullied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Quarter-Century Later, The Myth Endures | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

...major new biography by Jeffrey Meyers has appeared, as well as a memoir by his son Jack Hemingway. Jack and some other relatives have lately formed Hemingway Ltd., which will market the family name for use on such items as fishing rods and safari clothes. Jack has also lent Papa's name, grotesquely, to a line of shotguns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Quarter-Century Later, The Myth Endures | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

...what it would be like to take a vacation from his attack hormones. At the end of The Garden of Eden, in any case, the usual Hemingway order is restored: the rich, perverted bitch- wife goes crazy and departs, and the girl lover, lately lesbian, turns into one of Papa's adoring, delicious, perfect girls of one dimension...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Quarter-Century Later, The Myth Endures | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

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