Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DEATH ON THE INSTALLMENT PLAN, by Louis-Ferdinand Celine. This scabrous recollection of a wretched Parisian childhood, first published in 1936, has become the schoolbook of black humorists from Genet to Bruce Jay Friedman. The new, unexpurgated translation is by Ralph Manheim. RAKOSSY, by Cecelia Holland. A wild fictional ride through 16th century Hungary in which Magyar does in Magyar until the Turkish invaders put a temporary end to it all at the battle of Mohacs...
...impressionists, the Fauves and the cubists. Critics now live in terror of seeming square. The trouble is, as one anticritic remarked, they are now saying more and more about less and less. That includes some museum officials who are critics as well. Describing a box by Richard Artschwaser, Ralph T. Coe of Kansas City's Nelson Gallery wrote: "The cheeselike surface of his formica triptych opens to reveal-absolutely nothing. This work reaches clear into the unlimited recesses of the mind: recesses that could frighten." Sam Hunter, critic and director of Manhattan's Jewish Museum, commented...
...Invidious Comparisons. To frame the tests, Carnegie set up an exploratory committee of educators and executives, headed by Ralph W. Tyler, director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Palo Alto, Calif. The committee decided to examine 256 population groups, broken down into four age levels (9, 13, 17 and adult); four geographic areas; two income levels; sex; and urban, suburban and rural divisions. This would be done by sampling techniques in which only 5% of an age group would be tested and no single student would be likely to encounter more than a single half...
...Washington sequences. Across town, 70% of the Congress and most Cabinet members are regular viewers. Secretary of State Rusk has gone so far as to position his bedroom TV so that he can see Today in his shaving mirror. Beyond the Potomac, Atlanta Constitution Publisher and Syndicated Columnist Ralph McGill watches "with great frequency." TV Chef Julia Child does her morning calisthenics by it. On the West Coast, Danny Kaye and Pat Brown are fans. In Manhattan, Today is one of the two programs (the other: the Huntley-Brinkley Report) that RCA Boss David Sarnoff watches regularly, and even William...
Down on Dallas. Despite the even tone of the narrative, Manchester manages to say enough to stir up several storms. He contends that Kennedy went to Texas to patch up a quarrel between the followers of conservative Governor John Connally Jr., and those of liberal Senator Ralph Yarborough. If there is a villain (other than Oswald) in the Manchester piece, it is Connally, who-says Manchester-wanted to use the presidential visit to serve his own political ends. Calling a press conference, Connally insisted that Kennedy came to Texas to mend his own political fortunes, not to resolve a local...