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...thing is that we do not even really believe that the man in the water lost his fight. "Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature," said Emerson. Exactly. So the man in the water had his own natural powers. He could not make ice storms, or freeze the water until it froze the blood. But he could hand life over to a stranger, and that is a power of nature too. The man in the water pitted himself against an implacable, impersonal enemy; he fought it with charity; and he held it to a standoff...
...part of the deal, which Osborne gave, laughing that his clerk would be so bold. The girl, Tora Lucille, 30 years younger than her fiancee, educated at Agnes Scott in Atlanta and just back from a tour of Europe, had other ideas; after bearing Laskey a son, Ralph Emerson Bell, she ran away with a four-fingered gambler one night on the six o'clock boat to Louisville. Laskey Bell, now a rich man, sent his son to Andover and forgot about his wife, living alone in the majestic house he had built for her out of white...
Much of that skill is being employed in a renewed interest in the past. More Americans these days are ready to echo Ralph Waldo Emerson: "We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday." From Boston's Quincy Market to San Francisco's Ghirardelli Square, the U.S. cityscape shines with burnished filigree and newly painted trim on public buildings. In Albany, the senate chamber in the capitol was recently restored to its original 1880s state at a cost of about $2 million. Alabama refurbished the entire exterior...
Magder, a 1978 Emerson College graduate, and his partner Stuart Kelter, a 1978 Brandeis graduate, came up with the idea for Barterbank about a year ago. "We were inspired by the large-scale operations and wanted to tone it down a bit," Magder said, adding, "The idea was new, but we'd both been involved in starting small businesses before...
...student newspaper balked at printing the list of new members. Today everybody is eager to join, partly because undergraduates again think the distinctive gold ΦBK key may help unlock the door to worldly success. Harvard's chapter, which boasts such notable alumni as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Henry Adams, is flourishing. And when, as part of the bicentennial festivities, it recently sponsored a panel discussion on "Literacy and the Search for a Livable Future" at Harvard's cavernous Sanders Theater, there was no shortage of academic talent on hand. Significantly, though, Harvard Dean Henry...