Word: ernestness
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...Above all, the moving pictures. Ronald Reagan was not the only one with a secret yen to get onto the silver screen. The nation's crush on Hollywood was flowering wildly in 1932; while a few would read Ernest Hemingway's new hymn to bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon, throngs would dig up the pennies necessary to get them in the picture show to see Gary Cooper in A Farewell to Arms. As things got worse, film fantasy became more and more a handy escape; Red Headed Woman with Jean Harlow, Winner Take All with James Cagney...
...demonstration outside Holyoke Center that Wheeler participated in later in the spring, sealed her fate. The protesters were wearing paper bags with Dean Ernest R. May's face sketched on the front. May began walking up to students and lifting masks, including hers, Wheeler recalls. The CRR subsequently suspended...
...best and second best: the penetrating dramatist of culture clash and the clever animater of received wisdom. His new novel stretches from the Edwardian Age through the 1970s. At the halfway mark, the reader has already had brushes with Freud, T.S. Eliot, Ford Madox Ford, Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, Havelock Ellis, Mussolini and Heinrich Himmler...
...Harvard faculty members who worked on an Institute of Politics study of the transition process--Ernest R. May, professor of History, and Richard E. Neustadt, Littauer Professor of Public Administration--called the ExCab idea "very interesting," but added that it would take a serious effort to make it work in the Reagan administration...
...love you more than the moon and the sky," he would later write her. "Daughter, how complicated can life be?" Very, she would answer: "I tried to remain on the razor's edge, because had I asked, you would have thrown yourself from a wall for me." Ernest Hemingway did not go quite that far to prove his love for young Adriana Ivancich, but he did write her some 2,000 letters between 1949 and 1955, and he immortalized her as Renata in Across the River and into the Trees (1950). Years later, stung by inferences in a Hemingway...