Word: emerson
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...that the old notion of America as a melting pot was a romantic idea about something that never really happened. "Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men," wrote that perceptive and enthusiastic observer of the American scene, St. John de Crevecoeur, in 1782. Emerson elaborated and sustained the vision, and by 1908, Israel Zangwill, an admiring English Jew, was completely carried away: "America is God's Crucible, the great Melting Pot where all races of Europe are merging and reforming . . . Germans and Frenchmen, Irishmen and Englishmen, Jews and Russians-into the Crucible with...
...real surprise was Clark Graebner, 22, a gangly, bespectacled Ohioan, who ranks only No. 13 in the U.S.-though he did beat the world's No. 2 and No. 3 players, Australia's Roy Emerson and Fred Stolle, to win a tournament Down Under last year. Up to now, Graebner's trouble has been a relatively weak backhand, which has kept him from a Davis Cup singles berth. At Cleveland last week, he had the backhand to go with his searing forehand and serve. In the first singles match, he beat Mexico's Joaquin Loyo-Mayo...
...Committee had all its weapons readied at Emerson Hall last night: movies and slides of the wonders of Nature and the blunders of men who tamper with it, a panel discussion (which was eventually scrapped), and petitions and night letter forms for persuading legislators to vote against...
During his 27-year Manhattan ministry, Bonnell preached to 3,000,000 listeners weekly over his radio program, which he inherited from Harry Emerson Fosdick. He was also one of the first to apply science to salvation through "Dial-a-Prayer," whereby callers can phone a number (Circle 6-4200) and listen to a 30-second recorded inspirational message...
Adams, who has built his campaign around the Vietnam issue, made his suggestion about Lodge to more than 350 people in Emerson Hall, and then elaborated later in a brief interview. Although he declined to name specific alternatives to Lodge, he commented that the late Adlai Stevenson was the type man he had in mind...