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...fine novel of racism from Ernest J. Gaines...
...AUTHOR: ERNEST J. GAINES...
...Lesson Before Dying is, like Ernest Gaines' best-known novel, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, set in rural Louisiana. The year is 1948, and the particulars have a familiar ring. A young, black male is convicted of murder and sentenced to death on inconclusive evidence. The youth, called Jefferson, had the bad luck to be in a white man's store at the same time that two acquaintances attempted a robbery. They shoot the owner, but not before he fires effectively at them. Left with three dead men on the floor, Jefferson panics and helps himself to a bottle...
...country, the closings will have both an economic and a psychological impact, especially in the short term as communities struggle to find ways to convert the properties to civilian use. Predictably, politicians from affected areas were quick to squawk. "It could bring economic devastation to the area," said Senator Ernest Hollings of South Carolina, which is scheduled to lose its Charleston Naval Station. But Congress has cleverly set up a system that allows the Pentagon to push through its closures while insulating legislators from much of the responsibility or political fallout. In 1990 it established an eight-member bipartisan commission...
Warren Professor of History Ernest R. May also said the school would temporarily feel the impact of the departures. "In the short run it will make it very difficult," he said. "They will be sorely missed...