Word: ellison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campus this semester, Gen. Ed. 105, "Literature of Social Reflection." Taught by renowned psychiatrist Robert Coles '50, the course offers a reading list of predominantly white male authors, like James Agee, George Orwell, and Raymond Carver, although it does include a smattering of women and minorities, such as Ralph Ellison, Tillie Olsen, and Flannery O'Connor. The authors and texts, supplemented by occasional movies and documentaries, are divided into categories like "Ordinary American, So-called Working Class Men and Women: Several Angles of Vision," "Intellectuals and the Religious Search" and "Ways of Seeing Race...
...recognize them now, how can we leave Ralph Ellison, W.E.B. DuBois, Virginia Woolf, Simone De Beauvoir or Zora Neale Hurston off of our lists of contributors to Western civilization...
That is one reason keyboards have a way to go before they attain pure musical respectability. "When the keyboard is used for gimmicks and effect, the status, the art and the tonality are lost," says Paul Ellison, chairman of the string department at the U.S.C. School of Music. "It's not coming from the soul of the artist, it's coming from the brain." Indeed, there are lots of switches and buttons to get used to, even on simpler keyboards...
EIGHT years ago I had just turned 13. I was in the seventh grade, and I skipped band every day to sit around in free period reading science fiction. I remember reading a lot of Harlan Ellison. It was the age when "I Have No Mouth, But I Must Scream" can seem a profound statement of the human condition...
...seven who died aboard Challenger were Richard Scobee, Michael Smith, Judith Resnik, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe and Gregory Jarvis...