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Most of the time, the dapper Ellison got along with blacks and whites. He was the precocious child of doting parents in Oklahoma City. "I'm raising this boy to be a poet," said Ellison's father, a small businessman who named him after Ralph Waldo Emerson and died when the child was three. Ralph's mother worked as a domestic and recruited blacks for the Socialist Party. There was no shortage of role models for Ralph; he attended a grammar school named for Frederick Douglass and won a scholarship to Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute. While...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Invincible Man: Ralph Ellison 1914-1994 | 4/25/1994 | See Source »

...Government's legitimacy has broken down. The governed languish at the mercy of their leaders' kindness." Legal norms are a mere trifle to be pushed aside by an arrogant elite. Is Dartboard's intrepid correspondent sending back a frenzied dispatch from Rwanda? No, the crisis situation is centered in Emerson Hall, Harvard Yard, where the Undergraduate Council has unilaterally disqualified four out of five ballot questions .His Eminence, President and Grand Poobah Carey Gabay '94, Master of Peons and Terror of 12 Houses, through the unbounded benevolence of his magnanimous heart, has allowed a single question to remain, while chastising...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: DARTBOARD | 4/16/1994 | See Source »

...sophisticated argument taking place behind this parody; it was a kind of "meta-editorial," if you will. He also failed to recognize that my parody was an embodiment of the laughter of the Bakhtinian carnivalesque, a laughter which observes few limits (as Bakhtin scholars Gary Saul Morson and Caryl Emerson have pointed out). In fact, this irreverent Bakhtinian laughter is what our good friends Beavis and Butthead draw on so liberally...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: The Art of Making People Think | 3/23/1994 | See Source »

...Improbable Players. A Theater troupe consisting of people in recovery from substance abuse, will perform several skits focusing on the issues surrounding alcohol and other drugs. Discussion follows. Emerson...

Author: By Kelly T. Yee, | Title: This Week at Harvard | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

...think Emerson said it best," he says. "'Tobe great is to be misunderstood.' If that's true,we're the greatest publication since theFederalist Papers...

Author: By Ethan M. Tucker, | Title: Student Journal Ceases To Shock | 3/7/1994 | See Source »

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