Word: ernest
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...help him with the big painting he rightly considered his first masterpiece: The Farm. Frontal as a nursery ark, bathed in the raking dreamlight of early morning and constructed with the geometrical clarity of a Renaissance townscape, this was Miro's summation of memory. As its first owner, Ernest Hemingway, wrote, ''It has in it all that you feel about Spain when you are there and all that you feel when you are away and cannot go there. No one else has been able to paint these two very opposing things.'' It was Miro's power of recall as much...
...commission's reluctance to assign personal blame, while excoriating the agency's ''flawed process,'' caused one commissioner, Caltech Physicist Richard Feynman, to seek stronger language. He lost in his attempt to call some of NASA's managers ''stupid,'' but will record his own views in an appendix. Democrat Ernest Hollings of South Carolina insisted hotly at a Senate hearing that someone be held responsible for ''willful gross negligence'' in the tragedy. Replied Rogers: ''I'm not sure picking out any scapegoat and prosecuting would serve the national interest.'' At his press conference last week, the President agreed with Rogers...
...chronicles the war from its beginning to the Marines' heroic breakout at the frozen Chosin Reservoir in 1950. The story unfolds chronologically, with multiple, overlapping narrators. This is war as professional soldiers remember it, calmly and often impersonally; moral nuances are left to the civilians. Marine Private First Class Ernest Gonzalez speaks of the icy hell of Chosin: ''Word was passed to kill all enemy wounded. I found one Chinese curled up, lying facedown. He had a head wound shaped like a perfect pie-cut that exposed his brain. I fired into his midriff. He turned slowly and looked...
...exotic. Who wouldn't want to live along the Mississippi and drift down the river on a skiff? The buddy story of Huck and Jim was not only a model of American adventure and literature but also of deep friendship and loyalty. It's not hard to see why Ernest Hemingway said all of American literature can be traced back to Mark Twain. Plus, Twain was funny, the hardest trick...
...those heads swell, however. News in the form of edgy drollery may seem a brave new thing, but it can all be traced back to one source, the man Ernest Hemingway said all of modern American literature could be traced back to: Mark Twain. Oh, that old cracker-barrel guy, you may say. White suit, cigar, reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated--but he died back in 1910, no? White, male, and didn't he write in dialect? What does he have to do with the issues...