Word: ralph
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Born in Philadelphia to a door-to-door salesman and his English-born wife, Gloria Rachel Bloom began rebelling in college. As an English honors major at the University of Pennsylvania, she insisted, despite faculty reservations, upon doing her thesis on black Novelists James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison. She met a young man in her freshman year, married him as a sophomore, gave birth to a daughter in her junior year and got a divorce before graduating. Allred went on to earn a master's degree in English education at New York University, taught at an all-black boys...
...competition like this one is "not in the spirit of why people give blood in the first place," according to Mike S. Grossman '86, who has worked with his roommates Bradford J. Baker '86 and Ralph M. Costello '86 to recruit about 35 percent of Lowell House residents for the drive...
...doyen of professional translators, Ralph Manheim, 77, has lived in Paris for 34 years, secure in his grip on the English language, working with equal fluency from the French and the German. In the tiny maid's room that serves as his office, near the Luxembourg Gardens, Manheim has produced inventive English versions of some of Europe's most difficult writers, including Louis-Ferdinand Celine and Günter Grass. Manheim's most recent endeavor: a canny rendering of The Weight of the World, an elliptical memoir by Austrian Playwright Peter Handke...
...election night, hundreds of angry viewers telephoned the network-affiliated stations in San Francisco and Los Angeles to denounce the early prediction. Washington Secretary of State Ralph Munro, sponsor of a 1983 state law that prohibits exit polling within 300 feet of a voting place, said the network action meant that voters "had their ballots opened for them before they were cast...
...admire the Sparts for what they are doing. It's important to make the point now while people are being paralyzed by the propaganda Reagan is putting out," said Ralph G. Vetter 8' refering to the rumored MiGs aboard Nicaragua-bound Soviet freighters...