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Since Hemingway has criticized my book about him rather publicly ("How would you like it if someone said that everything you've done in your life was done because of some trauma?"), I'd like a chance to reply: It makes a lot of difference how you say a thing, and that is not quite what, or all, I said. The book was written in an attempt to understand Hemingway's work and to praise it. Almost everyone else has seen it that way, and I wish he could...
...harsh sights witnessed when he was a boy in Michigan traveling with his doctor father on emergency calls). Hemingway does not think very highly of that book. "How would you like it if someone said that everything you've done in your life was done because of some trauma?" he says. "I don't want to go down as the Legs Diamond of Letters...
Despite its Technicolor parade of sun-burned, gaudily-dressed couples, Mississippi Gambler remains a drab romance. Tyrone Power's discreet gambling and puritan manner would put a benevolent granny to shame, while Piper Laurie's reception of his passion stirs some deep psychological trauma--if you care to interpolate from an occasional tear runs Without damage down her lovely face...
...When non-cardiac patients are advised to limit their activities, as a result of incorrect diagnosis, the result is calamitous," say Dr. Goldwater and his colleagues. "Not only needless disability has been created, but irreparable psychic trauma also is often produced . . . Large numbers of young men are again being examined in connection with military service. It seems particularly timely to point out again that what is designed to serve as a preventive measure may prove to be just the opposite...
...Make It Legal" is a lawyer's nightmare and a layman's trauma. A Grade C boff at best, the plot concerns divorce, an old suitor, and a former husband, plus the usual welter of theatrical cliches...