Word: ernest
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DIED. JIMMIE ALBRIGHT, 82, fly-fishing adviser to the famous--among them, Ernest Hemingway and Jimmy Stewart; in Islamorada, Fla. Albright's other contributions to the sport were more tangible: he invented the nail knot and a hitch called the Albright special...
Once labeled a potential "kiss of death" by novelist Saul Bellow, after he won the prize in 1976, the Nobel can be a bittersweet distinction. For William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, the prize was a swan song, a tribute to past masterpieces whose greatness their subsequent work did not approach. For others, it's just a very prestigious distraction. Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska, the 1996 laureate, complained that the prize destroyed her cherished privacy by turning her into an "official person." According to Jonathan Galassi, editor in chief of Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Gordimer's and Walcott's publisher...
...exhausted and prospects for his early departure are grim, then the people have a right to remove him by drastic means. McAllister is correct: this is not a job for Americans to undertake, but we should have no moral qualms about providing financial inducements or technical assistance to others. ERNEST W. LEFEVER, Senior Fellow Ethics and Public Policy Center Washington...
...have some fun--he includes a wonderful brief passage about Mameha's past encounters with various luminaries who had visited Japan. "She poured sake for the great German writer Thomas Mann, who afterward told her a long, dull story through an interpreter," Golden reports, as well as for Ernest Hemingway, "who got very drunk and said the beautiful red lips on her white face made him think of blood in the snow...
Those tapes have now been declassified and enhanced with modern audio technology. The first complete, painstakingly verified transcripts will be published next week by Harvard University Press. Titled The Kennedy Tapes, the book is 700 pages of terror and drama, edited by historians Ernest R. May and Philip D. Zelikow...