Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ernest R. May, chairing the Committee on the Records of Government, said that the federal government's records "are in atrocious condition." May, who is the Warren professor of American History here at Harvard, also said that a final report of the committee will be issued in a few weeks...
Last year's move to divest at the Law Review failed to pass the board of trustees by a vote of three to three. Vorenberg and Graduate Treasurer Ernest J. Sargeant '40, both of whom sit on the board of trustees, changed their positions against divestiture to break the deadlock this year...
...returning home. The lyrics are full of stabbing detail: this vet's wife "called up her mama to make sure the kids were out of the house/ She checked herself out in the dining room mirror/ And undid an extra button on her blouse." As in Ernest Hemingway's seminal short story Soldier's Home, the reunion is full of restless memories and long shadows. The vet lies in bed, next to his wife, staring at the ceiling, his hands paralyzed, terrified of the darkness and the narrow future ahead of him. There have been a number...
...America is a time when certain sportsmen go mad for ducks and geese. The flyways are thick with, among other fowl, honkers coming down out of Canada. The season is on, and something rises in the blood of the hunter. It is a passion, remarked upon most lyrically by Ernest Hemingway, who once recalled, "That is the first thing I remember of ducks; the whistly, silk tearing sound the fast wingbeats make; just as what you remember first of geese is how slow they seem to go when they are traveling, and yet they are moving so fast that...
...Ernest Nunnally, director of foundation and corporate relations at Dartmouth, will leave his post of eight years to fill a comparable position in Harvard's University Development Office February...