Word: ernest
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Warren Professor of American History Ernest May, who studies 20th-century America and specializes in the Cold War, received the group’s Award for Scholarly Distinction, an award given to one or two historians each year at the association’s annual meeting...
...meaning that they should be trained solely in manual labor. In an influential psychology textbook published in 1908, former Harvard social psychologist William McDougall discusses a “submission instinct” in black people, an innate need to be pushed around and exploited by others. Harvard anthropologist Ernest Hooten called for race-based compulsory sterilization and biological purges in 1937. And as recently as last year in Social Analysis 10: Principles of Economics, the assigned article “Higher Alcohol Prices May Lower Spousal Abuse” by David Francis nonchalantly stated, “Stress, family...
...Ernest Hemingway, in his celebrated short story "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," describes the last few hours of a man's life as he lies, stricken by a gangrenous leg, at the foot of Africa's highest mountain. "There, ahead, all he could see, as wide as all the world, great, high, and unbelievably white in the sun, was the top of Kilimanjaro...
DIED. GREGORIO FUENTES, 104, fisherman, thought to have inspired Ernest Hemingway's 1952 novella The Old Man and the Sea; in Cojimar, Cuba. The hard-drinking raconteur became a legend in Cojimar, where, in exchange for cash or rum, he regaled tourists with embellished reminiscences of Papa H., whose fishing boat he skippered for some 20 years...
...Literature; in Madrid. One of Spain's greatest intellects of the 20th century, Cela gained entrance into the Royal Spanish Academy at 42 and was named marquess of Iria Flavia (his home village) by King Juan Carlos in 1996. DIED. GREGORIO FUENTES, 104, fishing-boat captain who inspired Ernest Hemingway's Pulitzer prizewinning novel The Old Man and the Sea; in Cojimar, Cuba. Fuentes met Hemingway in 1928, and helmed the author's yacht Pilar for nearly three decades. Fuentes inherited the boat after Hemingway's death in 1961, and chose to donate it to his native country, where...