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...woman recently hurt herself in the ski shop at Vail, Colo. Bending over to adjust the bindings on her rented skis, she ruptured her Achilles tendon and wound up in a cast for two months. Another girl suffered from annoying numbness in her legs whenever she skied. Dr. Arthur Ellison, a Williamstown, Mass., skier-orthopedist who runs a clinic at Vermont's Haystack Mountain, found that her tight ski pants were pressing on her leg nerves. He cured her "stretch-pants palsy" by making her wear a larger size...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Breaks of the Game | 2/8/1971 | See Source »

Professor Kilson, the "rat-sniffer," is disgustingly reminiscent of Ralph Ellison's Dr. Bledose. He has, consciously or unconsciously, become the blackguard of the Harvard Faculty on the subject of Afro-American Studies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The MailThe Kilson Letter: 'A Contemptuous Disregard' | 1/29/1971 | See Source »

...been Irish in Boston in the 1930s, or Italian in Buffalo in the 1960s, Kenneth Gibson's victory last week would have been both unremarked and unremarkable. But Gibson is, in Novelist Ralph Ellison's phrase, an invisible man-possessing a black skin that blinds many whites to the humanity within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cities: The Visible Man | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

WILLIAMS COLLEGE Ralph Ellison, LL.D., author. John V. Lindsay, LL.D., mayor of New York City. In facing the relentless problems and incredible demands bearing upon the mayors of our great cities, you have found the sensitivity to understand, the wit and the resilience to survive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos: Round 3 | 6/22/1970 | See Source »

...After reading the article by Ralph Ellison. I feel like running out into the street, embracing the first black man I see and asking, "Brother, where have you been all my life?" I say this in all seriousness and humility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 27, 1970 | 4/27/1970 | See Source »

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