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Cavell said that while people often find it "too hard to believe in the seriousness of the enjoyable," the contribution of such American melodramas to world cinema is actually as great as the contribution of Mark Twain and Ralph Waldo Emerson to world literature...
Adding to the dignified air which Walker says is needed for a Harvard event, will be readings of the works of Harvard graduates--including Ralph Waldo Emerson (Class of 1821) and Henry David Thoureau (Class...
...event will be commemmorated with a plaque given by undergraduates on Thayer Gate facing the Science Center. It will feature a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson and the numerals of the four College classes that contributed to the plaque fund...
...subtitle, America's Magic Mountain, refers to Thomas Mann's novel of a sanatorium as microcosm. Fair enough; this lively history reflects a galaxy of medical and literary incidents. The cast is worth the entrance fee: W. Somerset Maugham and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walker Percy and Bela Bartok, and even Gerald and Sara Murphy, the '20s couple who decided that living well was the best revenge. They all had one thing in common: tuberculosis, and the refuge in upstate New York offered the promise of recovery. Sometimes it was illusory. Bartok flourished at Saranac but later succumbed to the disease...
...idea and a commonwealth. The Minutemen of Lexington and Concord triggered a revolution and a republic. High-minded, contrary and steadfastly liberal, Massachusetts either led the parade or refused to march. It is the cradle not only of liberty but of imagination: John Harvard conceived of a college; Emerson and Thoreau inspired the intellectual flowering of New England; William Lloyd Garrison sparked the abolitionist movement that split a country. The state's hybrid heritage--Puritan and Pilgrim, fisherman and farmer, Yankee and immigrant--combined to form something greater than the sum of its individual strains...