Word: emerson
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...STREETS of Cambridge, outside the gates of Harvard Yard and its stately monuments like Emerson and University halls, lurk the spirits of Harvard's other culture. Once the heroes of a more feisty crew of students, these refugees from Bohemia stand as reminders of an alternatives approach to the Harvard education. Among the bars and cafes and magazine Kiosks shuffle the likes of Richard Henry Dana, one of the first of many undergraduates to exercise the option of the leaves of absence, by departing after his second year to spend two years before the mast and see the world. There...
Although Triumvirat's performance was actually faultless, they left no more than a slight impression upon me due to their obvious resemblance to more highly acclaimed bands: Yes and Emerson, Lake, and Palmer for example. Innovation is a quality that Triumvirat lacked--a quality that nowadays is sufficient to make or break a band...
...later sharpened by America's growth and by massive immigration. "Here," claims Spender, "were the horns of the dilemma: the combination of political independence and cultural colonization." Henry James, living in Europe and trying to create a balanced Anglo-American style of writing, was, in ambition, eons away from Emerson or Whitman. To some, Europe seemed to stifle America's literary development; to others, it was the center of western spiritual values, wherein lay the roots of a new American literary tradition...
Mustering a great deal of valid empirical evidence, and some less valid speculation, Spender explains the movement which, over the past century, led America to eclipse England in its long-held position of literary dominance. What Emerson saw as England's "immense advantage" --that American thoughts really belonged to Europeans--is now America's. England now finds itself being drawn to America for its "contemporary energy," says Spender, in the same way that Americans were drawn to England by the force of the past. Factors that have affected the slow changeover of roles include the Americanization of European literature begun...
...fastest-selling rock albums in the U.S. nowadays is a three-LP set by a British group, Emerson, Lake & Palmer. It includes mod versions of Aaron Copland's Hoedown, a movement from Alberto Ginastera's First Piano Concerto and even Sir Charles Parry's great old Anglican choral song Jerusalem. Also rising on the charts is an LP by a Dutch group called Focus that sounds at times like a combo of English madrigalists. In Detroit this week, English Rock Star Rick Wakeman begins a month-long U.S. tour featuring some unusual sidemen: Classical Conductor David Measham...