Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ralph Bergande Dormagen, West Germany...
...apartment, Bessie the mother is a tyrannical presence; Myron the father is an ineffectual bumbler. Their heroine daughter Hennie becomes pregnant, foists her child off on an unsuspecting immigrant husband, then runs off with a small-time racketeer. The grandfather spouts Marxist shibboleths ("Abolish private property"). The youngest Berger, Ralph, obviously a mouthpiece for the author, yearns to break free from the suffocating love of his parents...
Several people attacked this policy. Ralph Ingersoll, a friend of White's, published a polemic against the magazine in Fortune that year. He wrote personally of White that...
...This isn't just a reversal," said Ralph Neas, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. "It's reneging." The original settlement, said Birmingham Mayor Richard Arrington, who helped negotiate it, "could have healed a 100-year-old wound. Now we will have to fight old battles"-in a federal courtroom, not in Birmingham's streets...
Hart's father was a farm-equipment salesman, his mother a Sunday-school teacher. At age ten, says Uncle Ralph Hartpence, "Gary could talk to adults and make sense." His boyhood was wholesome and placid: small-town Kansas just before rock 'n' roll, lazy evening drives up and down Main Street, hanging out at the Dairy Queen with Best Pal Duane Hoobing or reading at the library. "He was good-looking and could have been very popular," says Hoobing, who teaches citizenship at a junior high school not far from Ottawa, "but he wouldn't pursue...