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...president of the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) argued that legislation for abortion "on demand" will "lead to euthanasia" for aged and handicapped people during a debate with the executive director of a National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) last night in Emerson Hall...
...groomed with comb, brush, scissors or curlers. The term natural, in its strictest sense, should not be applied to anything contrived or even changed by man. Some philosophers, to be sure, encourage a soupy sort of reductionism. "Nature who made the mason, made the house," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. That notion is nonsense. It is plain as rain that people invented the house to escape the elements of nature...
...Crowd"; The Right People) they are The Grandes Dames, women who ruled society from the 1880s to the eve of World War II. This bemused, anecdotal history follows the parabolas of such great and sometimes terrifying socialites as Bostonian Isabella Gardner. The recipient of letters from Henry James, Emerson and Whittier could have sprung from the pages of Alice in Wonderland. She envied but one person in the world: the Dowager Empress of China "because, when someone displeased her, she could order, 'Cut off his head.' " In Cincinnati, a society reporter named Marion Devereux had incalculable influence over...
Resurrecting Emerson...
...would like to reassure Reader James Schaap, who is "hard-pressed to find a public school where Ralph Waldo Emerson hasn't been replaced by tales of streetwise punks" [May 31]. Many of my students are streetwise, but also enjoy Emerson. His philosophy is applicable to the young person today who understands that with our economic turmoil "no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given...