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...Says Paul: "Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and hine often infirmities...
Style for Its Own Sake. The pattern of what Alberto Moravia aptly calls Hemingway's "ingenuous nihilism" was early set, but even Hemingway could not sustain himself on nada, or on bread alone. If life was a short day's journey from nothingness to nothingness, there still had to be some meaning to the "performance en route." In Hemingway's view, the universal moral standard was nonexistent, but there were the clique moralities of the sportsman or the soldier, or, in his own case, the writer. So he invented the Code Hero, the code being "what...
...passages-how to land a fish, how to handle guns, how to work with a bull-have behind them the professional's pride of skill. But the code is never anchored to anything except itself; life becomes a game of doing things in a certain style for the sake of style, a narcissistic ritual-which led Hemingway himself not only to some mechanical, self-consciously "Hemingway" writing but to a self-conscious "Hemingway" style of life...
J.F.K.: "For your sake, sir, I certainly hope...
...uoth convention, the House of Delegates lined up against what seemed to them-unanimously-to be the newest federal threat: the Kennedy Administration's bill to make the hospital and nursing-home costs of Americans over 65 a responsibility of social security. For consistency's sake, they also turned down a proposal backed by 51% in a poll of U.S. doctors, that would put them into the social security system for old-age pensions. (Doctors get "courtesy medical care" from their colleagues for themselves and families, both while in practice and during retirement...