Word: ernestness
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...Ernest C. Goggio
...very, very close," predicts one Senate insider. Texas Republican John Tower, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has praised Reagan for a "courageous" decision on the MX but has declined so far to endorse the basing mode. Opposition to Dense Pack is being led by South Carolina Democrat Ernest Rollings, an influential military hawk, who argues that "the Soviets would love nothing more than to see us throw away billions of dollars on a system that could be easily countered...
...have put in a lot of hard work, and are very optimistic about the season," said Wider man, who scored a convincing first period pin over B.U.'s Ernest Millard in the 118-lb, weight class...
...name somehow lacks the imperial grace of such reigning fragrance houses as Chanel and Lanvin. But images can change, and indeed they will have to if Actor Ernest Borgnine, 65, is to become the improbable pitchman for Tova, a semi-namesake scent being marketed by his wife Tove, 41. The Borgnines boldly contend that Tova is "the most expensive perfume to make in the world." The sale price: $55 a quarter ounce (compared with $37.50 for the same amount of Chanel No. 5). Quite a step up for the guy who made his name as a butcher...
...When Ernest Hemingway awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, he informed the committee that there was another author more deserving: "That beautiful writer Isak Dinesen." It was not one of Papa's displays of calculated modesty. The Danish baroness Karen Blixen, who hid under a series of pseudonyms, did deserve the prize she never received. Other rewards came: public adulation, critical respect, worldwide royalties. But as Poet Judith Thurman makes clear in her scrupulous and elegant biography, the baroness also suffered tribulations that force weaker souls to despair or madness. "All sorrows can be borne," she declared...