Word: ernest
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...ERNEST FLETCHER (R) District...
...Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and company may have picked over the freshest entrees. But Paris was still feast enough when a new migration of expatriates collected there after World War II--Irwin Shaw, James Baldwin, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and--with a palate educated by leftover meat loaf in Queens, New York--Art Buchwald...
...hundred Americans have to pay a levy called the "generation-skipping tax," which is 55% on transfers of more than $1 million from a grandparent to a grandchild. But Dole once helped shrink even that paltry number at the urging of two of his biggest cash donors, Ernest and Julio Gallo. According to the Center for Public Integrity, the Gallos, who own the biggest wine-making company in the country, are Dole's largest financial backers, having given more than $1 million over the years. But that is a modest investment compared with the $80 million that the Gallos were...
...WINEMAKERS ERNEST AND JULIO GALLO...
Choi's notions of knowledge and education are, as Ernest Gellner might have said, wholly pre-industrial. They typify the thinking that predominated in all the great book-religions until the transformations of the past 300 years. In these religions, knowledge was presumed to have come from a divine source and to be contained in sacred scriptures. Only a select few, it was thought, could interpret these works correctly, faithful to the divine will. In the great book-religions, these great books specifically, and language more generally, partook of the sacred; the path to truth and to divinity passed through...