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...less convulsive than a Mexican volcano or the sliding lip of Niagara Falls, American nature could and did provide feelings of intense religiosity. A painting like Sandford Gifford's Kauterskill Falls, 1862, with its vast panorama of woods dissolving in gold light, is a visual counterpart to Emerson's ecstasies in the forest three dec ades earlier: "1 become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the cur rents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel...
They're still trying to pack them into Emerson 210 to hear Laurence Wylie and Robert Rosenthal ("Otherwise known as the Bob and Larry Show," to quote Wylie) give this one. Wylie, of "Civilization of France" fame, attracted a legion of long-standing fans in search of another Soc Sci gut. With no paper and one test besides the final in this oeuvre, they may have found...
...Japes Emerson '77 began to sense "a vague dissatisfaction with things" during his sophomore year at Harvard, and during the spring of that year, while he was casually pondering taking time off, "a perfect job just sort of fell into my lap." Emerson had been active in theater while at school, performing at the Loeb and in House productions. The perfect job was steady work as an actor with The Proposition, a Cambridge-based improvisational performing troupe. Emerson remained with The Proposition for 15 months, rising, due to a heavy turnover rate, from low man on the totem pole...
...comfortable about my potential for working." He will again live on campus in a Harvard House--socially Collins does not rate the year off as having been a huge success. He didn't meet many new people, and spent much of his time with college friends around Harvard. Like Emerson, he also spent a good deal of time by himself, and his primary reason for deciding to live on campus was "to meet people and to be with people...
...enrolled in English S-123, "Chaucer," and English S-70, "Major American Writers from Emerson to Eliot...