Word: ernest
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Piper's protagonist, Zedekiah Maine (Geoff Gladstone), is a high school English teacher with a great deal of bad luck. While walking to the apartment of his girlfriend Angela (Sara Smith), Zed is mugged by Ernest Bugger (Mike McGraw), who takes his wallet, money, overcoat and the flowers he was going to give Angela. Ernest is immediately arrested, but the process Zed goes through between the arrest and the actual trial is a trial in and of itself for Zed. The police harass him, he is mistaken for a transvestite and his students harangue him. Everything culminates in the final...
...track will feature a sophomore spring tutorial taught by Warren Professors of American History Ernest R. May and Akira Iriye...
...enlisted in the British army in World War I and was taken prisoner on the Marne. The horrors of the trenches made him want to flee Europe altogether. In prison camp, he found books on Eastern civilization by Ernest Fenollosa and Lafcadio Hearn; at war's end, he enrolled at the Slade School in London and took classes in Japanese and Mandarin. In 1929, penniless, he managed to reach Shanghai. For the next few years he was able to study Chinese art and writing at first hand, painting landscapes and street scenes (none of which survive), getting...
...Ernest L. Boyer, President of the CarnegieFoundation for the Advancement of Teaching,provoked the audience at the close of theevening's talks...
...volunteer work around the country. "We want to institutionalize our work so we'll be here in 50 years.'' Increasingly too, the Christian-law groups are beginning to act in concert, most notably on a religion amendment to the Constitution, which they plan to unveil this month. Representative Ernest Jim Ishtook, a Republican from Oklahoma who will sponsor it in the House, expects the measure to have broad support. "Too many people have tried to create a new standard based on whether a single person gets their feelings hurt," Ishtook says. "What about the emotional injury suffered by the vaster...