Word: ralph
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...listed in any atlas, but that does not bother the folks at the Chatterbox Cafe, who are munching an ethereal strawberry cream pie "that makes grown men cry and lose all ambition in life." Nor does it make much nevermind to the people waiting in line at Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery. And obviously they are not overly concerned at Bob's Bank, whose slogan-"Neither a borrower nor a lender be"-would cause terminal heartburn in the boardroom of Chase Manhattan. In fact, the only people feeling the strain are those innocents who tune in National Public...
...much derivative as accumulative, encompassing historic epochs, good versus evil, and social commentary, all with a light tongue in cheek. It seems The Supreme Being (pictured for most of the movie like one of the Wizard's apparitions, a disembodied, blustering head, but then realized on earth by Sir Ralph Richardson in a rumpled suit) has demoted these midgets from their tree-and-shrub supervision. Their sin? "Wally here made a tree 300 feet tall, with pink leaves,...that smelled awful!" This is the tone of much of the humor--old hat, but cute. The dwarves were supposed to repair...
...other fronts, the reformers have had less impact. Investigative groups ranging from Ralph Nadar's organization to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have raised serious doubts about the test makers' claims, but policies here at Harvard and elsewhere haven't changed significantly as a result. Two leading critics of the SAT, and of ETS itself, are Harvard-affiliated doctors Warner V. Slack and Douglas Porter, who have combined their respective backgrounds in computer medicine and psychology to produce a detailed critique of the test and its administrators. Their most important research on the issue appeared last year in the Harvard...
...this in their analysis, adding that ETS itself quotes studies lacking concurrent controls when the findings suit its ends. Not so, responds Cameron, who accuses his critics of allowing "social aims" to shape their research and makes passing reference to the fact that Slack was a classmate of Ralph Nadar's at Princeton in the early 1950s, "and maybe that means something...
...reordering themselves, as well as the country and the world. The current obsession with the body can partly be seen as a diminished expression of the old or of unquenchable American optimism. "Here's for the plain old Adam, the simple genuine self against the whole world." So Ralph Waldo Emerson toasted the American spirit. But the "old" Adam, that rugged and predatory individualist, in his current incarnation is caught in a dilemma: how to survive an increasingly imperfect, not to say hostile, environment...