Word: ralph
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...middle of the 19th century, Americans thought they had outgrown the past. History was the Old World; America was too young to have a usable past. The great American tradition, as Ralph Waldo Emerson said, was to trample on tradition. In the 1880s the house where Thomas Jefferson wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence had become a hot-dog emporium. For most of the 19th century, American history was rarely included in the standard school curriculum...
...cycle. The next step is a big syndication deal, then years and years of reruns on local stations and cable. Virtually every TV anniversary, star's death or Emmy Awards show provides an excuse to trot out another edition of Scenes We Like to See Over and Over Again: Ralph Kramden bickering with Alice, Elvis gyrating on Ed Sullivan, Lou Grant meeting Mary Richards for the first time ("I hate spunk...
Gray's unauthorized directive was immediately leaked from the agencies that received it, and angry calls from Capitol Hill jammed the White House phones. Democrats and moderate Republicans denounced the directive. It was, said Ralph Neas, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, "an attempt to gain by Executive fiat what the White House could not pass through the Congress." A senior White House official agreed: "Boyden and his staff were just too close to the civil rights bill, and too many animosities built up. When it was over and the compromises were made, they still couldn...
WARNING: Nobody tell Ralph Nader...
...labels. That's not where it's at now, and we may never get back there," says Frank Mori, president of Takiyho, which owns Anne Klein and has a 50% stake in Donna Karan. "The days of selling clothes on the basis of brand name alone are over," says Ralph Toledano, president of Karl Lagerfeld...