Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RALPH E. WEST JR. Philadelphia...
...hope for such a new discrimination is not to deny Martin Luther King's pre-eminence as the genius of the civil rights movement. Despite the celebrity that surrounded him-and because of it-King's was the symbolic presence and voice of the black, of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, his inchoate rage distilled into visionary phrases: "I have a dream." There were other components in King's leadership: his unusual stature among whites (culminating in the Nobel Prize), the combination of his Southern rural style with Gandhian ideals, and an almost unassailable dignity respected...
...between the eccentric and the radical activist in both motive and methods, a point that you may have been attempting to make when you wrote "Genuine eccentricity generally stops far short of pathological conduct." Madalyn Murray O'Hair, Sirhan Sirhan, Thoreau, the current student radicals, Timothy Leary and Ralph Nader all are radical activists, not mere eccentrics as you have labeled them. Their motive is to change existing social mores or political trends by means of spectacular acts covered by the news media, whether these acts be legal challenge or murder...
Writer appearing in the Spring issue are Senator Charles Percy; Alan S. Boyd; E. Claiborne Robins, President of A. H. Robins Drug company; Stanley Arnold and Ralph Nader...
Yovicsin still has to fill the position left vacant by Yates. Coaches Loyal K. Park, Ralph A. Jelic, James J. Feula, and Lamar will remain in their positions...