Word: ernestness
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SOME literary buffs remember the 1920s as the strange season of triumph for American literature. Ernest Hemingway. F. Scott Fitzgerald. Gertrude Stein--all American expatriates--wrote tales that captivated not only American readers, but also audiences worldwide. In that decade, William Faulkner published The Sound and the Fury, and Eugene O'Neill won the Pulitzer Prize in drama three times...
...lengthy and imperfect. But it had at its center an unforgettable father figure whose weakness and tyrannical urges were disguised by forced jollity. Francis Clemmons, the dear old dad of Joan Chase's lyric second novel (her first, During the Reign of the Queen of Persia, won PEN's Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award in 1984), also has an unnerving gift of gab. " 'We're walking farther into this rotting grave and shall we ne'er get out?' " is the sort of banter his children would hear while riding piggyback...
...later, halfway around the world, the courtly Andre Previn decided that the Los Angeles Philharmonic was not big enough for both him and the orchestra's strong-willed managing director Ernest Fleischmann, whose high- handed ways alienated Previn. "It has become obvious to me there is no room for a music director," said Previn. The startling announcements fueled a flurry of who-goes-where speculation that had already begun in Paris, where the new Opera de la Bastille is seeking an artistic director to replace the fired Daniel Barenboim (who has been named Sir Georg Solti's successor with...
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...your senior thesis at Princeton, you wrote that Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin was hobbled by relying too heavily on permanent advisers. Is that a problem for you at the State Department...