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...told me to call him at the Seminary once Igot to Washington. I told him, 'I don't call men,"Ellison says. "In those days, girls didn't callmen...
...this business about Harvard men datingWellesley girls was not true," Ellison says...
...Ellison met her future husband John Ellison '44a senior in Robert Hillier's lyric poetry class,when they studied together for the final. He gotan...
Today's music is more anarchic -- a rap on the thick skull of an oppressive society -- and the street mood is rancid, desperate. It makes one wonder if Ellison's message ever got through to the larger public. As he declared in his 1963 essay "The World and the Jug," he wrote not from a belief that blacks can only suffer and rage, but from "an American Negro tradition which teaches one to deflect racial provocation and to master and contain pain. It is a tradition which abhors as obscene any trading on one's own anguish for gain...
Through his writing, Ralph Ellison hoped to breed a race of heroes. Through his example, he was surely one of them...