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...Writers, too," I respond more thoughtfully. "Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, the other Adamses (Charles, Francis and Henry), T .S. Eliot, John Reed, Wallace Stevens, Ursula LeGuin, Walter Lippman, John Updike and Erich Segal...
...haven't had this much fun since the pigs ate my brother."--Harvard Trainer Dick Emerson at a frigid Soldiers Field during a Harvard baseball doubleheader against Northeastern. NCAA Men's Ice Hockey...
Step 2: Undergraduate Activity Center. The Harvard Motor House is ideally suited for this role. In fact, the University could even house all undergrads here, eliminating all complaints about campus unity. The entire House system as well as Sever, Emerson, Robinson and Harvard Halls could then be converted into a more profitable enterprise, such as an amusement park/wax museum/go-cart track. It could have a catchy name such as "Harvard Funland," "Brown University" or something wacky like that...
Loos' one marriage, to collaborator John Emerson, was long and unhappy. Mr. E, as she called him, was relegated to becoming Mr. Loos after Anita began garnering acclaim on her own. But at the beginning of Anita's career, Mr. E.'s name on a script was probably instrumental in selling projects to male producers. And Anita also used Mr. E. to intercede with some who were uncomfortable with having a woman in charge. Carey avoids the issue of sexism by deriding Emerson rather than the Hollywood system...
...postmodern randomness of the the quintessential American philosopher, Reebok is trying to address not only our need to buy any particular brand of ads is meant to stress individuality and uniqueness, as does Emerson's philosophy. But the ads distort that philosophy by implying that Emersonian self reliance can be found in, of all things, sneakers...