Word: raye
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American progressives need a big project. In the 1960s, Freedom Summer was that project. Our parents’ generation abandoned their jobs and the glories of college life to bring a little ray of hope to the darkest spot in the struggle for civil rights. It was exactly the wrong place to go. Unlike Tennessee or parts of Georgia, Mississippi didn’t have a history of compromise on racial issues. Mississippians who opposed civil rights were more than willing to use violence, and state authorities were curiously unable to apprehend the criminals who harassed and even killed civil...
...description of the problems and pleasures of married life, is playful and almost sultry; the more exaggerated movements of the dancers fit the twang and whine of the music. The second piece, “She’s Hot to Go,” is a solo by Ray W. Keller ’08. His performance epitomizes the word “exuberant” in a particularly well choreographed piece...
...which is advertised as a mixture of “Fawlty Towers and Sex In the City” among many other famous comedic successes, has been delighting sold outcrowds since it opened this past weekend. The all-student cast manage to capture with inimitable wit the work of Ray Cooney, often regarded as the “greatest living English farceur.” Set in the illustrious Westminster Hotel, the play tells the story of what happens when junior minister of the British Parliament Mr. Richard Willey (Hugh Malone ’08) decides to participate...
...exaggeration to view corruption as a cancer that threatens this country's economic, political and social development." CHARLES RAY, U.S. ambassador to Cambodia, on the Southeast Asian nation's alleged misuse of foreign aid and estimated annual losses of up to $500 million to corruption...
There is something like ashy molasses in Ray Charles’ voice: dripping syrupy sweet with southern charm yet charged with gritty, unhewn candor, it resonates with a sense of immediacy and emotional clarity that is nothing short of divine. And yet somehow, even after 17 tedious years of development, Ray, based on Charles’ life, does not muster any semblance of the splendor within his music. The film lacks emotional attachment on any level and fails in every way as a meaningful addition to his life and legacy. With a mix of deceitful, manipulative Hollywood story telling techniques...