Word: ernest
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Increasingly, many of those critics urge that what is good for the kids at Moton and Lockett might be good for the entire U.S.: an extended academic year for everybody. The case for that radical change, says Ernest L. Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, is "absolutely compelling." It also seems perfectly in keeping with President George Bush's highly touted goal of making U.S. students first in the world in mathematics and science by the year 2000 -- even though Bush did not mention lengthening the school year in the education plan he unveiled last...
...Weirdie award goes to this nightmare classic from E. Elias Merhige. In violent chiaroscuro images, the film tells a primal story of man's birth, torture, death and rebirth. This one-of-a-kind movie (you wouldn't want there to be more than one) makes Eraserhead seem like Ernest Saves Christmas...
...pressure is on," says Harvard Boston fundraiser Ernest E. Monrad '51. "The donors, they're having a rough time...
Death-penalty proponents are similarly split. Ernest van den Haag, a former law professor at Fordham University who supports the death penalty, fears that televised executions might stir a misplaced sympathy for murderers. "Our compassion for the murderer whose life is cut short before our eyes may overcome our sense of justice," he argues, "for we are not shown his innocent victims nor how he murdered them." The fear of a public backlash is countered by the argument that once citizens view their first execution, the next one will not seem so terrible, and anti-death penalty fervor may even...
Anything can happen, or crop up, in a novel that allows itself to plunge into such fancies. That is why there is a scene in which Goethe and Ernest Hemingway meet in heaven to discuss their posthumous reputations. It also explains the frequent eruptions of presumably irrelevant aphorisms: "I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches." Or "Music: a pump for inflating the soul...