Word: ernest
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...applaud Joe Volpe for standing up to her," says Ernest Fleischmann, managing director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. "Somebody has to say stop. It's a salutary lesson and a help to us all." In these sentiments, he is far from alone. Other impresarios were also harsh in their assessment. "In the Met's place, I would have done exactly the same," said Hugues Gall, newly appointed head of the Paris Opera. "In the 1920s the director of the Met, Gatti-Casazza, used to deal firmly with even greater stars, like Caruso. But Caruso wasn't as crazy as Miss...
...been born 100 years later, Ernest Lawrence Thayer, Class of 1885, might have been among them. It was Thayer, a Lampoon president who authored the most famous piece of writing about baseball in history--the ballad "Casey at the Bat"--as the "funny man" for the San Francisco Examiner...
Last month Senator Ernest Hollings joked about Africans being cannibals, but no other white Senators were pressured to condemn him. Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern make questionable racial remarks, and yet former President Bush invited Limbaugh to the White House, and Senator Alfonse D'Amato attended Stern's book party. Says Jackson: "There is a broad base of objectionable language used by a lot of people in high places. It's not just Farrakhan." Or Muhammad. To make all black leaders responsible for his words, it might be argued, is just another kind of bigotry...
When Professor of Biology Ernest E. Williams reached the age of 70 in 1980, he retired; he had no choice...
...contrast, Wrestling Ernest Hemingway takes place in hot, muggy Miami. The old gentlemen here are Richard Harris as Frank, a sometime seafarer who once brawled with Papa, and Robert Duvall as Walt, a fastidious Cuban barber, now retired. Harris has fun overacting, Duvall has fun underacting, but nobody has any fun with the opposite sex. Frank has a snappish relationship with his landlady, played by Shirley MacLaine, and is too raffish for Piper Laurie, who is excellent as a dignified lady he meets at senior-citizen matinees. Meanwhile Walt moons over a young waitress (Sandra Bullock). Also written...