Word: ernsts
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...shield masks, the displacement and distortion of limbs -- as a means of reconnecting with his own African inheritance. He was not the first "provincial" to discover in Paris a means of using his local identity; he took what he needed (not only from Picasso but also from Max Ernst and much lesser figures like Hans Bellmer, and even from Jean Cocteau's hypermannered / line drawings) to find what he was. Lam's version of Cubism was more illustrative than Picasso's. The figures in his best-known painting, The Jungle, 1943, are like renderings of sculpture standing in a space...
Kurt Oelerich, 29, a C.P.A. at Ernst & Young in Chicago, still marvels at his father Frank's financial feats. "He's already paid for 18 years of college for five kids, and he was even unemployed for one of those years," says Kurt. "I asked him, 'How did you do it?' " Easy, replies Frank: "I wasn't that frugal. We bought our first home in 1961 for $19,500, a brand-new three-bedroom in Jacksonville, Florida, with $5,000 down, and we just traded up, paying off loans with rapidly inflating housing prices." Nine houses and one apartment later...
BLAME FOR THE SAVINGS AND LOAN FIASCO FALLS not just on executives of the thrift institutions but also on accountants and lawyers who closed their eyes to clients' shenanigans. So says the U.S. government, which claims a "landmark" victory in making that case. Ernst & Young, one of the Big Six accounting firms, agreed to pay a near record fine of $400 million to settle a slew of cases charging it with failing to blow a whistle on S&Ls it audited. For example, say the feds, the firm failed to challenge fictitious sales of real estate made...
...Ernst Uhrlau, chief of the Hamburg bureau of the Office to Protect the Constitution, fears that the rightward turn is more serious than many suspect. He predicts "more nationalism, less tolerance and a greater sense of radicalization." Hate crimes throughout Germany increased more than fivefold in 1991, to 1,483, compared with 1990, and this year's tally will run even higher. Uhrlau is worried that a wave of ultra-right terror could lie in the future -- a campaign as powerful as the left-wing violence of the late 1960s...
...epiphanous experience was when I was about17 or 18. I arrived at the University of Alabamaand my intention was then to train to become aprofessional anthropologist. But I discoveredevolution in the writings of Ernst Mayr, who'sstill around--he's a professor emeritus here atHarvard. It was such an enchanting,all-encompassing idea and gave such legitimacy tothe study of natural history, that I was totallypersuaded by its power and thus became far moreinterested in science as a profession as opposedto just the study of bugs...