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Thirty years ago, in an essay titled "Homage to Duke Ellington on His Birthday," novelist Ralph Ellison posed these questions: "How many generations of Americans, white and black, wooed their wives and had the ceremonial moments of their high school and college days memorialized by Ellington's tunes? And to how many thousands has he defined what it should mean to be young and alive and American?" Today, at a time when neo-swing and the Big Band sound have become trendy, even bursting forth from commercials for the Gap and Burger King, it's worth pondering how much...
...committee is composed of Peter T. Ellison, professor of anthropology; Louise M. Richardson, associate professor of government; and Yu-Chi Ho, McKay professor of engineering...
...policymaker, whose popularity is fickle and whose accomplishments, like those of most politicians, are not likely to stand the test of time. Would an economist have been selected 10 years ago, shortly after Black Monday and on the eve of a major recession? I doubt it. By contrast, Ralph Ellison (Commencement speaker in 1974) will always be a great novelist, Oscar Arias (speaker in 1988) will always be a crusader for peace and Colin Powell (speaker in 1993) will always be a military hero...
...Ellison Report," named for Associate DeanPeter Ellison, who chaired the committee, calledfor increased financial support for graduatestudents...
BOOK II In June the late Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth will come out, 47 years after his Invisible Man. Other tardy second novels...