Word: ralph
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When consumer advocate-cum-presidential candidate Ralph Nader spoke at the Kennedy School two weeks ago, he advised students to question campus administrators and their agendas. Undergraduates should demand the disclosure of Harvard's corporate contacts, Nader said. The president of the University should be required to deliver a state of the school address. The seven most powerful figures at Harvard's helm--the members of the Corporation--should be forced to meet with students. Maybe he's right...
Today, such words still ring true. This semester is the time to put down the books for just a few minutes each week to get involved in social action groups or political organizations. Because now really is the time. As Ralph Nader said, "If you don't desire to shape the University, when it's at your disposal, it is doubtful you have prepared your-self for the democratic world of the future in which you'll play a part." He was pontificating, to be sure. But he was right...
...first factor to consider is the change in personnel. Last year's team featured the 16 points per game of Ralph James...
When Steinem, now 57, pours a second cup of coffee and writes like she talks, there is no one more fascinating. The only comparable figure in public life is Ralph Nader, and he doesn't manage the trick of combining her monastic commitment with unapologetic glamour that gets her waved past the velvet ropes at clubs on both coasts. Strangers come up to her on the street and tell her, "You changed my life," and cleaning women at the airport find a place for her to take...
...served as the American civil religion. The 1960s turned into a decade of questioning, while the 1970s ushered in an era of nostalgia. And what is nostalgia, he says, but "history without guilt"? During the past 25 years, history has become a growth industry. Memory has been commercialized. Ask Ralph Lauren. In the Reagan years, public history was privatized, so that it was Coca-Cola, not the U.S. government, that "brought you" the centennial of the Statue of Liberty. The 1980s, Kammen says, inculcated "a selective memory and a soothing amnesia...