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Hemingway Exhibit¹ Opens at JFK Library in Boston 肯尼迪总统图书馆举办海明威展

The novelist Ernest Hemingway wrote 47 possible endings to his book "A Farewell to Arms."  Eight of them are part of a new show at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston, Massachusetts. The ending that Hemingway finally chose is also there to see.

Patrick Hemingway is the writer’s only surviving child. This week, he visited the library show. He said the exhibit shows how hard his father worked.

He said, "He always felt responsible for being where the action was. A lot of writers just retire to their rooms and describe their childhood. He didn't do that."

The Kennedy Library holds the world's largest collection of documents, photographs and personal belongings² of the famous writer. Library Curator Stacey Bredhoff describes the Hemingway collection as one of the library's "greatest treasures."

The show is called "Ernest Hemingway: Between Two Wars." It includes material rarely shown in public. The Morgan Library & Museum in New York City also presented the show last autumn.

Hemingway and Kennedy never met. However, Kennedy liked the writer’s work. Kennedy wrote to Hemingway for permission to use the novelist’s expression "grace³ under pressure." Hemingway was too sick to accept an invitation to Kennedy’s inauguration⁴ in January of 1961. The writer killed himself later that year.

The show also includes Hemingway's first short story. It was published in 1917 in a high school magazine. Visitors can also see letters between Hemingway and other writers at the time.

Patrick Hemingway praised the show. "I am very pleased that they were able to put together in my lifetime a very comprehensive⁵ picture of a person who really represented very well the first half of the 20th century,'' he said.

Ernest Hemingway fled Finca Vigia, his home in Cuba, at the time of Fidel Castro's revolution. The writer left much of all he owned on the island.

After the writer died, President Kennedy sought Cuba’s permission for Hemingway's wife, Mary, to visit the island and collect the belongings. A fishing boat transported the property from Havana to Florida.

Mary Hemingway established a relationship with Kennedy’s wife, Jacqueline, after President Kennedy was murdered in 1963. They later decided⁶ to keep the writer’s Cuba collection at the Kennedy library.

Patrick Hemingway now lives in Bozeman, Montana. But he is represented in the show. A photograph shows him and his father on a deep sea fishing boat. Fishing was one of Ernest Hemingway's great loves.

"He worked very hard in the morning but he never worked in the afternoon. He had a great life,'' Patrick Hemingway said of his father.

Words in This Story

novelist – n. a writer of fiction books

curator – n. a person who is in charge of the things in a museum, zoo, etc

grace – n. a controlled, polite, and pleasant way of behaving

draft⁷ -– n. a version⁸ of something (such as a document) that you make before you make the final version

stationery⁹ -– n. paper that is used for writing letters and that usually has matching envelopes

comprehensive – adj. including many, most, or all things

1 exhibit   

vt.展览，展出，陈列；n.展览品；陈列品

参考例句：

• Next week those goods will exhibit in that shop. 下个星期，这些货物将在那家商店展出。
• The economy continued to exhibit signs of decline in September.9月份，经济继续呈现出衰退的迹象。

2 belongings   

n.私人物品，私人财物

参考例句：

• I put a few personal belongings in a bag.我把几件私人物品装进包中。
• Your personal belongings are not dutiable.个人物品不用纳税。

3 grace   

n.优雅，雅致，魅力，恩惠，慈悲

参考例句：

• She is a beautiful girl with the grace and poise.她是一位仪态优雅的佳丽。
• I hope the grace of God would descend on me.我期望上帝的恩惠。

4 inauguration   

n.开幕、就职典礼

参考例句：

• The inauguration of a President of the United States takes place on January 20.美国总统的就职典礼于一月二十日举行。
• Three celebrated tenors sang at the president's inauguration.3位著名的男高音歌手在总统就职仪式上演唱。

5 comprehensive   

adj.综合的，全面的，广泛的

参考例句：

• He was educated at the local comprehensive school.他曾在地区的综合中学受教育。
• An objective test can be quite comprehensive.客观测试相当全面。

6 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

7 draft   

vt.起草，作...的草稿；n.草稿，草图，草案

参考例句：

• He's now revising the first draft of his essay.他目前正修改他的文章初稿。
• The draft of this article has been done。这篇文章已经定稿。

8 version   

n.版本；型号；叙述，说法

参考例句：

• His version of the events is pure supposition.他对这件事的说法纯属猜测。
• What is your version of this matter?你对这件事情的看法 怎么样？

9 stationery   

n.文具；(配套的)信笺信封

参考例句：

• She works in the stationery department of a big store.她在一家大商店的文具部工作。
• There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.文具一多，心里自会觉得踏实。