Word: emerson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Summer School will open its Tuesday Evening Literary Series with Lillian Hellman, American playwright, in an informal dialogue with professor Daniel Seltzer followed by questions from the audience. Tuesday, July 9, Emerson Hall...
Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism is a kind of historical guide and handbook for the gentleman rebel -Emerson-cum-Marx rather than Rap Brown-cum-Mao. "I am less interested in 18th century radicalism than in 20th century radicalism," Lynd admits, and at times he makes American history read like one long protest march in which Jefferson, Thoreau and Staughton Lynd are fraternity brothers linked arm in arm. Lynd writes as a scholar as well as a proselyter, and his slim volume valuably documents the American tradition of dissent. But it must be read with the proper skepticism...
...Emerson Electric...
Thoreau Emerson...
Most of Harvard's remaining professors found themselves understandably pre-occupied with the war. Charles Townsend Copeland might continue his annual poetry readings in Emerson Hall, but Pitirim Sorokin abandoned purely academic pursuits to perfect and publicize his plan for world peace--national sovereignty, he believed, had to be sacrificed for a world government with a monopoly of force...