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Warts and All. Hemingway's motto was "l faut (d'abord) durer" (One must, above all, endure). He was relaxed, fulfilled, only when writing well or when life's hostilities were out in the open-during war. "Having a wonderful time!" he wrote friends after his baptism of fire as a World War I ambulance driver. As a correspondent in World War II, he reiterated: "I love combat." Baker suggests that Hemingway's "esthetic of pleasure and pride" in "killing cleanly" may have been applied to war as well as the hunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ernest, Good and Bad | 4/18/1969 | See Source »

...annuelle que nous avons, nous aussi a Paris-ce fameux bal des quatre arts dont vos anciens vous auront transmis l'echo ou que certains parmi vous deja connaissent; mais, ce que je trouve surtout charmant dans la votre c'est cette gentille pensee d'y avoir convie d' abord M. le President de l'Universite, qui tres parternellement vous aime, n'en doutez pas, mais qu'un recent deuil de famille empeche malheureusement d'etre des votres ce soir, puis votre tres estime doyen, le professeur Sabine, enfin d'y avoir convie aussi vos professeurs qui vous sont...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prof. Duquesne's Response at Masque | 5/15/1911 | See Source »

...life to the elevating of French morals. A justly popular and a very beautiful work is his "La Fille de Roland." Another of his notable books is "Le Fils de L'Aretin" which eloquently inveighs against immoral literature. The last production of this patriotic poet is entitled "France d'abord...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: French Lecture. | 3/7/1901 | See Source »

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