Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...develops that they can also do Walter Cronkite and Howard K. Smith. Dressed in jeans or slacks, sneakers or penniless loafers, they exude information as they discuss conference topics: this morning it's the Quality of Life, this afternoon Education, tomorrow Leadership and Community Involvement. Soft-spoken Ralph Shain of Bellaire, Texas: "If you want to talk about coal gasification, the Federal Government hasn't yet licensed a single plant." Dark-eyed Patti Anderson of Granby, Colo.: "The population of the underdeveloped countries will double in 20 years, but they're not going to start having fewer...
...left to Ralph Ellison to develop the Afro-American in all of his indivisible and invisible wholeness. In the tradition of the classical epic of Western literature, an unnamed protagonist, neither naturalist demigod nor realist picaresque, sets out on a journey on which depends the future of his race or his nation. He sets out to achieve his identity in the most widely accepted tradition of Western literature: the journey. From the Odyssey to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, amidst the background of superhuman danger, virtue came in the struggle of the hero and his triumph over evil forces...
...course he returned underground to contemplate the chaos of his being. Yet the realism of Ralph Ellison is critical in that it seems to examine the causal factors which result in the nexus of relationships which seek to determine our reality. This reality, however, is problematic, as presumably it is uncertain and invisible within the context of the reality...
Rosenthal promised a court fight in the issue. "You can expect 200 suits," one from each of the pinball operators in the city," he warned the council. Ralph Hoagland, owner of 1001 Plays, said later he would go to court to get the square footage provision struck down...
...feat of poise. The next day, 500 violinists came for Silverstein's master class, some from hundreds of miles away. Only the tuba (ten) and the harp (20) drew fewer than 50 people. In all the studios the air was thick with concentration. Oboist Ralph Gomberg counseled one jittery student: "You don't hear the notes if you play it too fast." Flutist Senwick Smith used one phrase in a piece called The Flute of Pan to try to loose some spontaneity in his cautious players. "Do you know who Pan is?" he asked. They...