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...compassion of the priest. Few people want their shortcomings exposed (biography has added a new terror to death, complained one 18th century writer), and they, or their heirs, often go to considerable trouble to hide them. Somerset Maugham asked his friends to destroy his letters; both Willa Gather and Ernest Hemingway inveighed against posthumous publication of theirs...
...ghastly consequences of their failure in the worst U.S. air disaster would have been troubling enough. But other events stemming from their discovery were also unsettling. The Federal Aviation Administration, the governing body of U.S. flight, quickly ordered inspections of all 138 DC-10s still flying for U.S. airlines. Ernest Gigliotti, 31, and Lorin Schluter, 39, two conscientious United Airlines mechanics, found metal filings as fine as dust on one DC-10 in Chicago. Suspicious, they did the natural thing: they shook the pylon. It was loose. The two men discovered 27 fasteners that held together part of the pylon...
Chairman of the History Department, Ernest R. May, says the History Department was geared to handle 50 graduate students until recently. Next year, 18 students will enter the History graduate program. "Right now we're in the talking stage about how to deal with the changes," May says, "but there is an overall department feeling that these are questions of the graduate school, not the department." The History Department sent to Rosovsky a letter summarizing some of their ideas about maintaining the viability of graduate school education, including a proposal which would widen job training to include preparation...
...most recent review of tutorials in 1969 by Ernest R. May, then acting associate dean of the Faculty, beat the same old bushes with a similar lack of success. May viewed the Faculty's negligence with not a little exasperation: "Since tutorial represents one-third to one-half of the departmental course work required of honors students and since most of the tutorial courses are managed exclusively by teaching fellows, we appear to be violating out principle on a grand scale...
Sleepless Nights tosses and turns on such hard, solitary judgments. Mary McCarthy comes to mind and, oddly, so does the Ernest Hemingway of A Moveable Feast, who said that his book could be regarded as fiction though it also might throw light on autobiographical fact. Hardwick provides a similar safeguard when Elizabeth, her novel's unaltered ego, says to herself, "Why didn't you change your name? Then you could make up anything you like, without it seeming to be true when...