Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon inaugural medal shown at the bottom of the cover is the official medallion approved by the new President. The sculptor was Ralph J. Menconi, and the medal itself was struck by the Medallic Art Co. of New York. The three-quarter view of Nixon's face is a departure from the traditional presidential profile. The reverse side of the medal is also something of a novelty: instead of being the standard reproduction of the Great Seal of the United States, it is a sculptured rendering of the crewelwork seal that Julie Nixon gave her father as an election...
...countless people have shown, the individual need not really be powerless. The machine can be made to stop and change direction. James Ellis, a dynamic lawyer, mobilized hundreds of citizens to bring order to Seattle's over-rapid growth (see box following page). Ralph Nader may not be everyone's hero, but he set the giant automobile industry on its heels, and now seems ready to reform the federal regulatory agencies, which have been shockingly negligent in their concern for the consumer-citizen...
...wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1841. And so believes American Composer Earle Brown, 42, whose music bears an unmistakable relationship to the plastic arts. Brown's work owes a debt to the mobile sculpture of Alexander Calder and the abstract expressionist painting of Jackson Pollock. His scores are graphic in their detail and precision, but he believes in a certain improvisation or mobility within a performance itself. Therein lies the influence of Calder, whose mobiles are made of 15 to 20 parts moving freely in space and changing their relationships with one another from minute to minute. Pollock...
Last year was the year, among other things, of the Boston Sound, known to hipsters and Ralph Gleason alike as the B.S. Whatever its merits or demerits, the phrase transfigured the tawdry Boston rock scene from Saugus Sockhop Rock into a very nearly successful commercial venture, spawning dozens of bands and hundreds of musicians, some excellent, some execrable. It gave hope to a great variety of dropouts and freaks that their City, Boss-Town, would be their next stopping-off point on their never-ending journey to That Better World Through Love, Dope, And Rock 'n' Roll Music. Hotcha...
...have any ego problems?" asked Ralph Nader. "Can you interview aggressively?" If the answers satisfied Nader, the consumer crusader who has challenged such industrial giants as the auto industry and the meat packers, the applicant was accepted. He was then authorized to go forth and do unpaid battle with the powerful, the lethargic and the secretive amid Washington's vast bureaucracy. Seven young volunteers, law students and lawyers from Ivy League colleges, spent their summer examining how well the Federal Trade Commission does its job of protecting the customer. Their 185-page report, released last week, mixes verbal assassination...