Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Associates of JERRY BROWN say the former California Governor yearns for elective office and is nursing a slim hope that his state's anticlimactic June primary could be advanced to March, when it would be a better springboard. Still more improbable is the gathering of support for consumer gadfly RALPH NADER. "I'm a citizen, not a politician," protests the lonely crusader. But he has yet to disavow his followers' efforts to get his name on the Democratic slate...
...German and American Romantic theology, which sees God not as a transcendent Other, giving us texts or examples, but as the ground of our being. God, the Romantics believe, is within us; the purpose of religion is to enable us to make contact with him (or her). As Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Unitarian minister turned essayist and lecturer, put it, "That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen." A century after Emerson, his heirs have decided that self-fortification can come through sex -- gay or straight...
...Ralph G. Martin; Putnam; 463 pages...
...conviction of Louisiana's Father Gilbert Gauthe, who had molested 35 youths. So widespread are the cases that by one informed estimate, Catholic institutions have paid $300 million in settlements -- with no end in sight. "We could be sued out of existence," says Notre Dame philosophy professor Ralph McInerny...
...saddest things I see is black students who say to me, "I only read black writers." And what they really mean is they are reading people like Don L. Lee and Louis Farrakhan. I say, Have you ever read any Jean-Paul Sartre? Have you ever read any Ralph Ellison or Albert Murray or James Baldwin? Nope. But they read Don L. Lee's tract on what a black man should be, as though this is different from what any man should be. And so there's this sort of intellectual segregation that I think is absolutely a death knell...