Dear Editor
Dear Editor Remembering Ernest Reading Ruth Mathewson's "Courting Death" (NL, November 22) brought back some memories. In 1936, in Key West, Ernest Hemingway suddenly said to me that he couldn't...
...Casey didn't want to, Ernest seemed to have been insistent, and Casey clobbered him...
...In 1936, in Key West, Ernest Hemingway suddenly said to me that he couldn't write the book he wanted to, because it would hurt too many people...
...Yet I wonder what Margolis made of the piece by his fellow columnist, Walter Goodman, in the following New Leader issue ("The Mafia Looks Around," November 22...
...She was a very pretty and pleasant young girl...
...My point is not that Goodman ought to be ashamed of himself (although if I were he I would examine my attitude toward Italian-Americans), but that ethnic jokes do not have to be as vulgar and unfunny as was Butz...
...Especially in the world of politics, where every feeling is masked in officialese, humor is frequently the single medium that allows real sentiments to come through...
...He also had much of the male Americano in him...
...He said to me, "Jesus, Jim, you ought to go and see it...
...Indeed, they are occasionally hilarious, and therein lies a sad truth: Whether because they unleash dark, secret hatreds, or appeal to the weaker sides of our natures, or play on some archetypal human delight in formulaic characters (the trickster...
...Ernest's A Farewell to Arms was not allowed in the house, but the sisters had a copy and had read it...
...Years later, the last time I saw him, we met one afternoon in the Metropolitan Museum of Art...
...For what was the article, if not a long, amusing, stylish, and clever Italian joke...
...The disillusionment with the War that Mathewson speaks of was only one side of Ernest...
...I assumed he was thinking of how writing about his father's suicide would affect his family...
...This is a paradox that will not be resolved, I fear, for a long time to come...
...The girls called their mother, who occasionally painted, "Grade...
...He spoke to the effect that the War was wonderful...
...He told me how he was going to the front when a shell hit and smashed a Spaniard...
...T thought Gracie was cracked, and I believe they did also...
...Billy Herrman...
...I used to see Ernest's two sisters, nicknamed Sunny and Beefy, at the Hemingway home in Oak Park...
...After Beefy married, Ernest told me he didn't like her husband and hadn't talked lo her since the marriage...
...the Polack), these jokes are immensely popular, even among those who most disapprove of them...
...New York City James T. Farrell All Joking Aside I congratulate Richard J. Margolis on his excellent "Pride and Prejudice" (NL, November 8...
...All too often derisive ethnic jokes, brushed aside with "I was only kidding," or "Listen, everybody has to laugh at himself," reveal an underlying intolerance and hostility that would not be socially acceptable in other forms...
...the old ballplayer, told me he was present when Ernest demanded to put on boxing gloves with Hugh Casey, the Brooklyn Dodger relief pitcher who committed suicide some years before Ernest did...
...New York City Jerome Clark...
...Those who attempt to excuse Earl Butz because his offense was limited to making an ill-advised wisecrack are definitely barking up the wrong tree...
...His manner convinced me that he had a morbid fascination with war, and that his feelings were all entangled with the questions of masculine courage...
...He meant the Spanish Civil War...
...When he returned from the fighting in Europe, he gave a speech, I believe at the Oak Park High School, and held up a pair of breeches with bullet holes in them...
...Billy said that Ernest was rough, but that Casey was rougher...
Vol. 59 • December 1976 • No. 24
