Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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OSCAR WILDE'S MASTERPIECE "The Importance of Being Ernest" is as self-conscious a piece of fluff as ever there was. The play, indeed, is full of references to its own triviality. When one character advises another, "In matters of grave importance, style not sincerity is the vital thing," she could be talking about Wilde's own philosophy...
...mark up labor expenses by-quite legally-computing in overhead charges more than ten times as high as those of civilian business. The cost may reach $50 billion a year. "When you see a beautiful military jet flying overhead," said the study's author, Air Force Analyst A. Ernest Fitzgerald, "you're seeing a collection of overpriced parts flying in close formation...
...Ernest Hemingway Simple Declarative Sentence Awards: to a Leverett candidate whose plain white paper poster reads: "Government exists to serve the people. The council exists to serve Harvard undergraduates. I would like the opportunity to be of service...
...madly exciting time") and Poet John Ciardi ("When you're on a mission and you saw a Japanese plane go down, you cheered. This was a football game"). One might also include Irving Goff, Spanish Civil War veteran, OSS operative and the reputed model for Robert Jordan in Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls...
...sounds, that's exactly what the University is proposing to do with $2.5 million which funds the 3800-acre Harvard Black Rock Forest in Cornwall, N.Y. Under a proposed sale agreement released last month. Harvard would sell the site--which was donated to the University by Dr. Ernest G. Stillman '08 in 1950--for $400,000 to a consortium of about 12 non-profit it educational and recreational institutions. In a fit of generosity, the University would offer the consortium a one-time donation of $50,000 once the deal is cut. But Harvard would end up walking away with...