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...raise the question rhetorically, but unfortunately for me, I actually can relate to the pompous professor. My senior year in high school, I wrote an essay on Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man in which I boldly asserted that one of the novel's characters, Ras the Exhorter, was based on the real-life black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. I remember feeling the smug self-satisfaction that comes with crafting (what I thought was) an original academic argument. I excerpted the essay on my Harvard application. I wondered--only half in jest--whether it was publishable...
...rude awakening. Indeed, the next fall, I came across an interview of Ellison conducted in 1955, which focused mostly on Invisible Man. The interviewers did not beat around the bush...
24.Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison...
...fact, a study by economists Judith Chevalier and Glenn Ellison, to be published later this year in the Journal of Finance, argues that young fund managers are usually more averse to risk taking and actually outperform their older counterparts by a small margin. Case in point: Blaine Rollins, 31, a University of Colorado graduate who, when he's not playing laser tag or going to an Aerosmith concert, oversees a combined $670 million in assets at the Janus Balanced Fund and Janus Equity Income Fund. "There's always some executive who views you as a snot-nosed kid," says Rollins...
...RALPH ELLISON (1914-1994) His novel Invisible Man (1952) began with the sentence "I am an invisible man" and concluded, "Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?" The words in between brought African-American experiences vividly into the literary mainstream and spurred a renaissance that continues to this...