Word: emerson
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Those ideals, stated in the 1966 law, were simply that every federal agency must make "records promptly available to any person." Apart from exceptions so numerous and broad, complained Yale Law Professor Thomas Emerson, that they took away "most of what was previously granted...
Speaking before a Harvard Republican Club audience of about 75 people in Emerson Hall last night, Loeb said that the confusion is illustrated by the fact that the Congress is moving to the left while public opinion polls indicate a conservative trend among the public...
...Emerson ignored too much when he wrote, "There is properly no history; only biography." Nonetheless, it is true that there is no history without biography. We construct theories of historical movements and trends that too often have a dangerous neatness about them. These reconstructions, though they pretend to an archeological authenticity, reveal at least as much about the time in which they are written as about the culture or events they are attempting to explain...
...respectability and belief in an independent ruggedness, from the New England Transcendentalists. He read them again and again, quoting them in letters and memos and then finally in a book of criticism called Essays Before a Sonata, a sort of preface to a four-movement piano sonata celebrating Emerson, Hawthorne, the Alcotts and Thoreau in turn. Ives particularly admired Emerson for his 'radicalism'--so radical, Ives wrote, that it "plunges to all roots at once," cutting the basis from more limited, specific criticism of the world even as it criticized the world as a whole. It was something like Ives...
Boston College took third place in Saturday and Sunday's action with nine points. Rounding out the competition were Wellesley, Tufts, Simmons, MIT, Boston University, Emerson and Regis...