Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...claims the support in his presidential drive of Martin Luther King Sr., the Rev. Ralph Abernathy and Atlanta Congressman Andrew Young. Yet he insists that poor Southern whites back him too. "Those are my people," he says...
...widely spread don't seem to figure in her mind. Smugly, she explains that writing is the only pastime she is fitted for--her lone skill--and publishes without bothering to catch her breath for a moment and rate the words that drone on and on. She blithely denounces Ralph Ellison, who was reluctant to risk a second novel, and swishes unseeingly by his acrid message still hanging on in the morass of literature--dangling, perhaps, more tenaciously because he never repeated himself...
...University leased a 13-acre parcel near the Medical School for the construction of the 774-unit mixed-income housing to the Roxbury Tenants of Harvard, independent developer H. Ralph Taylor and general contractor George Macomber in April...
...busy fretting over the human condition to attend to mundane matters of nature. No such constraints apply to the people involved with The Wilby Conspiracy, which features a proper white engineer (Michael Caine) and a black revolutionary (Poitier) dashing about South Africa with a cache of hot diamonds. Director Ralph Nelson (Lilies of the Field) and his writ ers evoke mocking memories of The Defiant Ones by giving Poitier his custom ary handcuffs and a weak bladder to go along with them. This combination of circumstances results in a certain amount of anguish, requiring the reluctant assistance of his unfettered...
...Trial of Billy Jack (1974), who mused on the tragedies of My Lai and Kent State? It can. To Laughlin, the private fury and the public saint are a smooth amalgam of aesthetics and justice. "The youth of this country have only two heroes," he claims modestly, "Ralph Nader and Billy Jack." Laughlin says to friends, "Billy Jack will institute political change...