Word: ernest
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...dark, obsessive, partly despicable and wholly compelling protagonist; a strong supporting cast (Damon Runyon, Ernest Hemingway, Hedy Lamarr); a marvelous milieu (vaudeville in the '20s, New York City cafe society in the '30s, radio in the '40s, television in the '50s); a plot that comes in Gatling-gun bursts; and a resonance that is part parable of American success and part caution. Walter Winchell would make a great movie...
...counties disaster areas. At the Texas- Oklahoma border, waters rushing out of overfilled Lake Texoma ravaged a popular summer restaurant-disco-and-marina complex. By the weekend the unruly Trinity was menacing East Texas with still larger troubles. "The river's going crazy," said National Weather Service hydrologist Ernest Cathey in Fort Worth. As it inundated immense swaths of ranchland, stranding herds of livestock and driving out hundreds of families, the Trinity at times looked like a vast lake. To people in its path, especially in Liberty County, 50 miles or so northeast of Houston, officials issued a blunt warning...
...Chemical fertilizers, insecticides and weed killers have contributed to harvests that make U.S. agriculture the most productive in the ! world. But they have also leached into groundwater, contaminating wells in rural communities across the nation. "Not every well is polluted, and not every farmer has an erosion problem," says Ernest Shea, executive vice president of the National Association of Conservation Districts. "But we realize that we'll be better off if we admit that we're part of the problem...
Morrison's final lecture dealt with themes of "Blackness" in Ernest Hemingway's novels To Have and Have Not and The Garden of Eden...
...well. Though the changes are often controversial, many colleges have revised their curricula to include courses in non-Western cultures and values. Fewer and fewer of the history and literature surveys focus exclusively on the West European heritage. "The curriculum has been radically realigned," says Carnegie Foundation president Ernest Boyer. "Minorities have insisted on it, women have insisted on it, and frankly it's made universities dramatically better places...