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...pressure is on," says Harvard Boston fundraiser Ernest E. Monrad '51. "The donors, they're having a rough time...
Death-penalty proponents are similarly split. Ernest van den Haag, a former law professor at Fordham University who supports the death penalty, fears that televised executions might stir a misplaced sympathy for murderers. "Our compassion for the murderer whose life is cut short before our eyes may overcome our sense of justice," he argues, "for we are not shown his innocent victims nor how he murdered them." The fear of a public backlash is countered by the argument that once citizens view their first execution, the next one will not seem so terrible, and anti-death penalty fervor may even...
Anything can happen, or crop up, in a novel that allows itself to plunge into such fancies. That is why there is a scene in which Goethe and Ernest Hemingway meet in heaven to discuss their posthumous reputations. It also explains the frequent eruptions of presumably irrelevant aphorisms: "I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches." Or "Music: a pump for inflating the soul...
...Ernest Hemingway wrote: "The most complicated subject that I know, since I am a man, is a man's life." Ted Kennedy is a complicated man. The picture of him as Palm Beach boozer, lout and tabloid grotesque is one version. He has other versions -- more interesting selves. Alcohol, or some other compulsion, may drive him now and then to bizarre and almost infantile behavior. But Ted Kennedy also is a remarkable and serious figure...
...Warren Professor of American History Ernest R. May shares Thernstrom's sentiments: "I'm sure it will be extraordinary. Donald is very sensitive to interpretations of periods and people. I expect this to be a remarkable book...