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...final years, which Random House plans to publish in April. The book bristles with intimate details of Hemingway's slow deterioration. On reading the galleys, Mary says, she suffered "a traumatic shock." In a letter to Random House Board Chairman Bennett Cerf, she accused Hotchner of "shameless penetration into my private life and the usurpation of it for money." She demanded a long list of changes in the book. The author and the publisher agreed to many of them, but Hotchner flatly refused to delete the last chapter, which recalls how he urged Mary to transfer her husband from...
...some use: she is a writer of autobiographies, of which La Bâtarde, her fifth, was a considerable success in existential circles. It is a success based not on wit, wisdom or literary grace but on the unpleasant pleasure many people find in watching someone else behave shamelessly. Violette Leduc, shameless to the point of masochism, confesses to her greed and petty thievery, her gluttony, her love of begging and pleading, her torturing of others, her self-obsessive use of sex. "Violette Leduc weeps, exults, and trembles with her ovaries," writes Simone de Beauvoir in her introduction. Ovaries...
Crediting the sudden reversal by the Office of Education to a phone call by Mayor Richard J. Daly, a powerful figure in the Democratic Party, to President Johnson, Chicago civil rights leaders decried the release of the $30 million as "a shameless display of power." The Coordinating Council of Community Organizations, the Chicago civil rights group that made the original charge of de facto segregation in July, triggering the HEW's investigation, announced that it will file a complaint with the State Superintent of Public Instruction and with the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to try to stop...
Replied Savio: "I understand fully the shameless hypocrisy to which the court has been reduced." After an electric silence, Crittenden asked Savio if he cared to repeat his statement. Savio did, and louder. "Mr. Savio," said the judge, "I'm going to cite you for contempt of court." Savio spent 28 hours in jail. His followers predictably held a mass rally to protest the court's action...
...great many of the letters from Frost's youth and middle years asked- politely and entertainingly, but with insistence-for money, or flattered editors so that money could be asked for in the future. He coached friendly critics, and was shameless in calling attention to the notices they produced. An unfriendly and unjust reading of his correspondence could have it that Frost spent the first two-thirds of his life hawking his product and the last third complacently enjoying the proceeds...