Word: emerson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Emerson 105 is filled to overflowing during History 1711, "The United States and East Asia," another Fairbank course. Mary Parson '78 said yesterday that large first-day crowds reflected the course's popularity and encouraged even more students to enroll later...
Whether from Wilson, Emerson, or the honeybee, the message is the same: know what you have, and use it. To properly manage the colony of 100 trillion brain, muscle and skin cells entrusted to you (more than all the people that will ever enrich the earth's soil) is a divine task, and the unique privilege of being human. Alan White...
...Emerson, 45, first visited Viet Nam in 1956, in the days of Graham Greene's Quiet American. She returned to cover the war for the New York Times from 1970 to 1972. Sometimes in this long documentary meditation on the war she becomes morally proprietary about Viet Nam, brittle with self-righteousness. Yet that indignation gives her book-despite its oddly banal title-a fine fury and intelligence. When someone suggests that too much has already been done on Viet Nam, Emerson replies: "Let the books be written, so when all of us are dead a long record will...
Survivor Numbness. The franchise she has undertaken is rather grandiose-to describe what the nation's longest war did to the American people, and also, in part, what it did to the Vietnamese. For several years Emerson ranged widely, talking to everyone she could find who had been touched by the war: veterans, fathers, mothers, wives, widows, deserters, P.O.W.s. resisters, Vietnamese. She had long since concluded, however, that most Americans were -and still are-weirdly oblivious to what happened in Viet Nam. Even the Kentucky mother of a boy who came home emotionally bent by the war remarks: "They...
Sometimes when Emerson approached Americans whose husbands or sons had died in the war, she discovered what every cub police reporter finds -the survivors' numbness, an element of blank, nothing much to say. All of the Viet Nam decade, of course, was filled with grotesqueries, wild ricochets of irony. Emerson recalls the case of a poetic 22-year-old private whose job it was to compose elaborate-and totally fictitious-battle citations for senior officers who wished to leave Viet Nam with a Silver Star. The secretary of a local draft board in Gordonsville. Tenn. tells Emerson: "Five died...