Word: ernest
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...Ernest Hemingway wrote: "The most complicated subject that I know, since I am a man, is a man's life." Ted Kennedy is a complicated man. The picture of him as Palm Beach boozer, lout and tabloid grotesque is one version. He has other versions -- more interesting selves. Alcohol, or some other compulsion, may drive him now and then to bizarre and almost infantile behavior. But Ted Kennedy also is a remarkable and serious figure...
...Warren Professor of American History Ernest R. May shares Thernstrom's sentiments: "I'm sure it will be extraordinary. Donald is very sensitive to interpretations of periods and people. I expect this to be a remarkable book...
...politicians argued that new taxes were needed to finance the fighting. "We've got to live in the real world and start paying our bill," said Democratic Senator Ernest Hollings of South Carolina. Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith advocated a surcharge on annual incomes greater than $100,000. "Some of our poorest people are fighting the war," Galbraith said. "I would like to see our richest people pay for it. It would be a fine expression of democratic will...
...child's self. If he gets lost in the galaxy, he can find the way back, can fly through the concentric circles to his own house -- from outermost remoteness to innermost home. Nostalgia means the nostos algos, the agony to return home. What got broken long ago in Ernest was his charts and instruments for the journey...
Anthony Catanese, president of Florida Atlantic University, called the decision "lunacy." Ernest Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, found it "startling." Even Kevin Pritchett, editor in chief of the right-wing Dartmouth Review, considered it "quite disturbing...