Word: aficionado
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tall, heavily-built, dark-skinned and square-featured, Hemingway is still a bullfight aficionado (fan), likes also big-game fishing, hunting, plays tennis regularly to keep his weight down. Divorced (1926) from his first wife, he was remarried a year later to Pauline Pfeiffer, then a Paris fashion writer for Vogue, has had by her two sons, Patrick and Gregory Hancock. Since 1930, he has made his home at Key West, living there in a thick-walled, Spanish-built house, its garden somewhat incongruously inhabited by peacocks. His 30-ft. launch El Pilar he uses for casual pleasure jaunts, trips...
...provinces. In Spain, the land where bulls are much more than bulls and matadors a little more than men, 1937 promised to be the worst season in history. Gripped by the passion of civil war, Spain had little time or temper for its national "sport." But to many an aficionado, the great days of bullfighting had already gone over the horizon with Joselito and Belmonte, long before the civil war closed most of the bull rings. To observers with long memories and high standards, bullfighting had become decadent: its matadors were virtuosos, its backers venal, its public vulgar. Against this...
...wide an audience, may alienate many of his new disciples, but it is a genuinely Hemingway production. Death in the Afternoon is all about bullfighting: a complete, compendious, appreciative guide. If you have never seen a bullfight Death in the Afternoon may not turn you into an aficionado (fan), but it should make you aware that Spain's national sport is something more than a merely brutal spectacle...