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Investment manager Ernest E. Monrad ’51, while acknowledging that “interpersonal diplomacy was not [Summers’] strong point,” says that he thought the past president put forth “good ideas...
...most expensive model, the limited-edition Meisterstck Solitaire Royal, is decorated with 4,810 pav diamonds (the metric height of Mont Blanc). A version of that pen entered the 1994 Guinness Book of Records as the most expensive fountain pen in the world. For more modest fans like Ernest Hemingway, however, the standard Montblanc model served the purpose well enough...
Ever wish your English prof would cut down on that dreaded work load? Reid Professor of English and American Literature Philip J. Fisher did just that last month: in a competition inspired by Ernest Hemingway’s famous short story, “For sale: baby shoes, never worn,” students in his class, “English 178x: The American Novel: Dreiser to the Present” were allowed exactly six words to write a story—plot, characters, conclusion, and all. The competition, proposed by a student in the class, mimicked a similar online...
...works in question include four paintings by the Viennese master Gustav Klimt, and a famous Berlin street scene by the German expressionist Ernest Ludwig Kirchner sold earlier this month for nearly $50 million. So-called "restituted" art - pieces either directly looted by Nazis, or ones their owners were forced to sell for below-market value to escape Hitler's regime - made up more than half of the record $491 million total sale at Christie's in New York earlier this month. Last summer, Klimt's most famous painting, the "Golden Adele," which had hung in a Vienna museum for more...
...Ernest E. Monrad ’51, who donated the money to establish the professorship that Weitzman held, also declined to discuss the matter...