Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three weeks ago the owners of 33 Dunster Street, Ralph and Molly Hoagland, took over managing the restaurant and on Wednesday issued formal notices of termination to all waiters and waitresses...
...Ralph Hoagland said yesterday the employees were not fired because they were trying to unionize, adding that he planned to terminate all employees and rehire those who were interviewed and were qualified to work under the new management...
Indoors or out, growing plants in water permits far more intensive cultivation than geoponics, or earth gardening. Since the roots do not spread out in search of nourishment, six times as many plants can be raised in the same space needed for earth farming. Ralph Prince, an agricultural engineer at the University of Connecticut's Storrs campus, has run laboratory experiments that indicate that an acre producing only ten tons of lettuce by conventional farming can grow more than 700 tons by hydroponic methods. Chicago's Brookfield and Lincoln Park zoos raise much of their mammal fodder hydroponically...
Matty's character and Golding's story are more abstruse than Ralph and his plight in Lord Of The Flies. Unlike his earlier work, Darkness Visible is totally inaccessible to pre-teen-agers. Wrought with more blatant sexual imagery and a convoluted cast of characters, Golding's latest novel demands greater analytic skills and literary knowledge. No teacher could spoonfeed Darkness Visible to eager sixth and seventh graders the way he might have Lord Of The Flies. For example, the Miltonic overtones, from the title's derivation in Paradise Lost to the satanic qualities that possess so many...
Matty doesn't understand if he is child or adult, savage or saint, and this conflict epitomizes the struggle in Golding's fabel. Golding fuses the traits of Ralph, Simon, and Jack--the three major characters in Lord Of The Flies--into one persona, further complicating Darkness Visible. Matty's internal voices insist he is "at the centre of an important thing and has been always." Such mystical thought resonates throughout Matty's journal...