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...N.F.L.'s decision to bring their ball to Pontiac's playground was not entirely magnanimous. Ernest Jones, 66, chairman of the Michigan Super Bowl Committee, is also chairman of D'Arcy-MacManus & Masius, a Detroit-based advertising agency, and he tackled Pete Rozelle with the aid of an awesome lineup. Jones got a full roster of ad-firm chieftains to "remind" Rozelle of their dedication. That dedication is measured in automotive industry advertisers-from cars to spark plugs to tires-who have supported the N.F.L. on television with an estimated $1 billion in commercials over the decades...
...Ernest R. May, professor of History, said the allies were an important consideration in forming the president's foreign policy. "The administration had taken the view that it is important to compromise with and make concessions to the allies," he said, adding that while Reagan's political supporters advocated a hard-line foreign policy, he has nevertheless tried to maintain "a degree of solidarity with the allies...
...nearly 1,000 titles. Caedmon rarely offers complete books, but concentrates on authors reading in their own voices: William Faulkner rushing over the magnificent rhythms of his Nobel Prize acceptance speech in a high, fast drawl; Robert Lowell stridently brave in poems about his mental illness; Ernest Hemingway growling Across the River and into the Trees like a Midwestern newsman with too many years at the anchor desk; and John Dos Passes lending The Forty-Second Parallel a hoarse intensity. Like some book publishers, Caedmon has noticed a surprising interest in the short story. Among its new bestsellers are Eudora...
...Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters, 1917-1961 edited by Carlos Baker. Through four decades, Papa ranges forth on subjects that include the state of his art and the condition of his reputation, marriages and bowels...
...have occasionally been censored (as was Verdi's Rigoletto), and sometimes the exigencies of performance required certain concessions in the music itself. Carmen, a failure when it was first performed at the Opéra Comique in 1875, was outfitted after Bizet's death with recitatives by Ernest Guiraud to replace its original spoken dialogue. But this did not change the essential character of the composer's conception...