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Published in 1945, Buckley’s doctoral dissertation on poet William Henley became his first book, William Ernest Henley: A Study in the Counter-Decadence of the Nineties...
...Democratic Congressman from New York, doesn't think so. Complaining that the military's all-volunteer force has left the risks of combat largely to minorities and the poor, who are more likely to join the military for a better job, Rangel has joined with South Carolina Democratic Senator Ernest Hollings to introduce a bill that would reinstate the draft, which ended 30 years ago. "We're going through a period of what I call patriotism lite," says Rangel, a decorated Korean War vet. "Put a flag on your SUV, but when it comes to making a sacrifice, you hold...
...representative rejected the idea that his draft proposal is strictly a race issue, citing Sen. Ernest Hollings’ (D-S.C.) co-sponsorship of the draft—but Rangel did not hesitate to say his proposal was about class...
DIED. LESLIE FIEDLER, 85, provocative literary and cultural critic, best known for the 1960 book Love and Death in the American Novel, which examined the psychological undercurrents, including the powerful, even homoerotic, bonds between male characters, and the exclusion of women, in the works of Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain and others; in Buffalo, N.Y. Fiedler wrote hundreds of essays, short stories and poems and helped inspire acceptance of American--as opposed to mostly British--literature in university English departments...
BOTTOM LINES "You have blown the whistle for the end of playtime, but you have yet to convince France it should get back to work." ERNEST-ANTOINE SEILLIERE, chairman of the French employers' organization, on the government's economic reforms...