Word: ellisons
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...true that subject matter does change the contours of inquiry, but such differences stem rather from the nature of the phenomenon than from the suseptibility of the subject to scientific method or clear interpretation. But objective inquiry must employ Ralph Ellison's admonition to the Social Sciences: "Watch out, Jack, there're people living under here...
...Oscar Ellison gained a decision over Ollie Goodenough in the freshman 165-pound class, and Fred Smith, out with an injured ankle, forfeited to Mike Rosenbaum in the 175-pound house fight...
Coles has a philosophical bent too. Philosophers Sören Kierkegaard and Simone Weil appeal to him for their interest in "everydayness, the everyday movement of people's lives." He admires Ralph Ellison (Invisible Man) and William Faulkner?"the real psychologists." Most important to Coles, though, is the late James Agee, whose writing style he consciously imitated in the early 1960s and whose photograph looks down on Coles as he writes. Erikson says that Coles strongly identifies with the author of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, that early portrait of sharecroppers. Both writers, says Erikson, "are part of a tradition...
Thomas F. Birmingham '72, of Winthrop House and Chelses; Keith P. Ellison '72, of Adams House and Denver, Colo.; Stanley S. Jones Jr. '71 of Quincy House and Atlanta, Ga.; Michael E. Kinsley '72 of Mather House and Birmingham, Mich...
Ralph Waldo Ellison, L.H.D., novelist. He has fashioned a mighty allegory of the central conflict of our age. The terrors and exaltation of black existence in an unseeing white universe have the force and violent conviction of Melville's searing voyage in search of a phantom whale-which is everyman's ordeal...