Evening star., 1961-07-03

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ten it, it might have gone some
thing like this:
Hes dead" she said.
who is?" he asked.
Ernest Hemingway" she
said. Shot himself. Accident" !"
TOO bad" he said. TOO
bad. He was a fine writer"
1t was in such a clasSically
simple style that Ernest Hem
ingway wrote OF the majesty of
life, the brutality of death, the
grandeur of love and the hu-
manity of violence.
But if Hemingway's style ap-
peared simple. it was decep-
lively so, as many of his would
be imitators soon learned.
Rather, it was a style of basic
essentials of human existence.
prose is architecture, not in
terror decoration" he once
said, adding:
The baroque is over"
MOurners Are Many
Mr.. Hemingway's style of
rugged understatement created
a new idiom in modern litera-
ture, and when the bell tolled
for the Master yesterday, his
mourners were many.
Poet and playwright Archi-
bald MacLeish called Mr.. Hem
ingway "a master of English
prose, the great stylist of his
generation"
Mr.. Hemingway's idiom "waS
an idiom of the human spirit,
not of the language alone, Mr..
IMacLeish continued. Writers
in other tongues were influ-
enced almost as much as those
who wrote in English"
Said author and playwright
James Thurber:
Hemingway was unquestion-
ably one of the greatest writer's
of the century. It was said ac-
curately of him that his con-
tribution to literature was a
certain Qualification of the
English language. I met
him only once, and we went
over to Tim Costello's and had
a wonderful time and became
brothers"
Said Princeton University
Prof. Carlos Baker, an author
ity on Hemingway and his
work:
"Along with William Faulk-
ner, he is one of the goth CEN
tury greats of American fic-
ton"
Praised by Sandburg
Said Poet and Biographer
Carl Sandburg:
"He was a writer who pro-
foundly influenced style in
America in the novel and the
short story. He got a style
going among many fellows
using short words. He had no
stock heroes. He chose his own
order of people to love. His
was "a peculiar wisdom, some
times a little bit fragrant, but
his own"
| Nor we're Hemingway ad-
mirers confined to this coun-
try.
In London. Novelist and
Playwright j. B. Priestley
called Mr.. Hemingway "a
subtle writer with the ability
to put his message over in a
simple way"
Writer Francois Mauriac said
in Paris: IT can only salute
with emotion his memory"
Radio Moscow called Mr..
Hemingway a distinguished
American writer" and noted
that most of his works had
been translated into Russian.
But what of Hemingway
the man? Intimates generally
agreed he was a man who loved
life passionately. Yet he risked
his own life often.
Mr.. Hemingway resolved this
apparent contradiction in many
of his book, indicating that
life, to be fully savored, must be
risked at times and that some
of life's greatest beauty can be
found by brushing death.
1t was perhaps this line of
thought that drew him to bull
fighting, in which a man risks
his life only in an effort to
display grace and beauty, and
which was classically portrayed
in his Death in the Afternoon. p"
Certainly, Mr.. Hemingway
showed no reluctance to risk
his own life. An ambulance
driver in the First World War,
he covered the Spanish civil
war for the North American
Newspaper Alliance. II was
from this struggle that one of
his monumental works, For
Whom the Bell Tolls" emerged,
as well as his only play, THE
Fifth Column" which was
written while the author was
under fire.
Elephant Was Nearby
In 1854, when the author
and his wife returned to civili-
zation after being in two plane
crashes in the wild elephant
country of East Africa, Mr..
Hemingway shrugged off the
Who'll thing as a joke.
1--WE held our breaths for
about two hours while an