Word: lovingly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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John Osborne did a fine piece of reporting in "The Ugly War" ... by giving us a sympathetic report on our young fighters in a rough country, among "people whom they don't like"-and, let us admit it, whose people do not have any great love...
...matchless exactness. However thin his story, he keeps it in motion and even invests it with a sense of potential explosion, though the explosion never comes off. The famed Hemingway style, once a poetic blend of tension and despair, is hardly more than a parody of itself. The love scenes are rather embarrassing than beautiful, the language of love forced and artificial. With his truculence, his defensive toughness, his juvenile arrogance, Hemingway's hero quickly becomes a bore who forfeits the reader's sympathy...
Martinis for the Heart. Across the River is the story of an embittered man steeped in a sense of personal failure, momently expecting death from heart disease, having his last fling at duck hunting, which he loves, and his last fling at love itself with an 18-year-old Italian countess in Venice. Hero Richard Cantwell is 51, a U.S. Army colonel demoted from general and stationed in a postwar billet in Trieste. His personal history and even some of his characteristics are startlingly parallel to those of Author Hemingway...
...present novel is about love, death, happiness and sorrow. It is also about the city of Venice and the Veneto, which Hemingway has known and loved since he was a young...
Hemingway is bitter about nobody. But the colonel in his book is. Do you know any non-bitter fighting soldiers or any one who was in Hürtgen [Forest] to the end who can love the authors of that national catastrophe which killed off the flower of our fighting men in a stupid frontal attack...