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There is a famous picture of Ernest Hemingway taken in the last decade of his life. In the picture, he sits over a table, writing: he leans towards his thick left arm and writes with the other. He is both solid and graceful, not an airy grace but the true grace of a man who seems in absolute control and comfort, his collar opened low on his famous chest. His head inclines towards the left and downward, the eyes lowered to the page and obscured to the viewer. The white, trimmed beard is dignified, the coming together of his lips...
...fitting picture, and a fitting resemblance, to be chosen for the publicity of the Hemingway Centennial Conference: it was on posters, of free postcards; it lined the front of the seminar tables like bunting and--altered so that there actually appears to be a halo around the iconic figure--appears on the front of the Centennial's Conference Program. Hemingway attracted attention like a movie-star: at the conference's closing session, fellow Nobel laureate Derek Walcott called Hemingway "the first writer to become a real celebrity," and W.E.B DuBois Professor Henry Louis Gates proposed that "for some portion...
...Moveable Feast. In general, classroom learning is almost an afterthought for Americans studying abroad. As the generations of American expatriates, from Ernest Hemingway to Gertrude Stein, Class of 1898, to F. Scott Fitzgerald would attest, intellectual stimulation and creative inspiration are inherent in any foreign experience...
...sign of a hero is if you feel enhanced simply when talking about him--recounting his feats, recalling a time when your own little life was touched by his. Last week people who know baseball were lit up talking about "the great DiMaggio," as Hemingway's old man called him; his death bequeathed that final gift. I chatted with Roger Angell, the baseball writer, and remarked upon that well-known yet unbelievable statistic: 361 lifetime home runs, 369 lifetime strikeouts. Angell made the point finer when he noted that in 1941, in 541 at bats, DiMaggio struck out only...
...that led to man-the-hunter was largely inferential: if you bring the women along on the hunt, the children will have to come too, and all that squalling and chattering would surely scare off the game. This inference was based on a particular style of hunting, familiar from Hemingway novels and common to the New England woods in October, in which a small band of men trek off into the wild and patiently stalk their prey, a deer or two at a time. But there is another way to get the job done known as "communal hunting," in which...