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Freedom in Concord. At first glance, Professor Rusk's biography seems to tilt the figure of Emerson as Americans have come to know him. The work of a 60-year-old professor at Columbia University, it is a massive, detailed, thorough, factual study, the first biography in 60 years to reflect a careful sifting of Emerson's unpublished manuscripts and papers. Heretofore, the standard source books on Emerson have been the work of his literary executors, James Elliot Cabot and Edward
...greatly attracted by one aspect of Emerson-his struggle "to keep his little area of personal freedom safe from encroachment." The emphasis is consequently upon his independence, his reserve with family and friends, his ties with and his distance from the members of his congregation and the citizens of Concord...
Finkelstein was walking with Miss Gans on the Concord Avenue side of the Observatory grounds when the three youths stopped them and threatened to strike Finkelstein with a flashlight if he did not hand over his valuables...
...Morphet and Ray L. Hammon will be the main speakers. The discussion group chairmen include Alfred D. Simpson, associate professor of Education, Homer W. Anderson, and School Superintendent Ralph D. McCleary of Concord...
...March girls are played by blonde June Allyson (Jo) in a red wig, brunette Elizabeth Taylor (Amy) in a blonde wig, Janet Leigh (Meg), and Margaret O'Brien (Beth). Though the faces have changed, the girlish flutter and flummery are still the same. Curled up in her cluttered Concord attic, tousle-headed Jo still writes, and weeps over her blood & thunder fiction. The romantic Meg still falls romantically in love, marries and has twins. Featherbrained Amy, as self-centered as ever and still suffering from the "degradations" of well-bred poverty, succeeds in catching wealthy Laurie (Peter Lawford). Little...