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...respectability and belief in an independent ruggedness, from the New England Transcendentalists. He read them again and again, quoting them in letters and memos and then finally in a book of criticism called Essays Before a Sonata, a sort of preface to a four-movement piano sonata celebrating Emerson, Hawthorne, the Alcotts and Thoreau in turn. Ives particularly admired Emerson for his 'radicalism'--so radical, Ives wrote, that it "plunges to all roots at once," cutting the basis from more limited, specific criticism of the world even as it criticized the world as a whole. It was something like Ives...
Boston College took third place in Saturday and Sunday's action with nine points. Rounding out the competition were Wellesley, Tufts, Simmons, MIT, Boston University, Emerson and Regis...
...STREETS of Cambridge, outside the gates of Harvard Yard and its stately monuments like Emerson and University halls, lurk the spirits of Harvard's other culture. Once the heroes of a more feisty crew of students, these refugees from Bohemia stand as reminders of an alternatives approach to the Harvard education. Among the bars and cafes and magazine Kiosks shuffle the likes of Richard Henry Dana, one of the first of many undergraduates to exercise the option of the leaves of absence, by departing after his second year to spend two years before the mast and see the world. There...
Although Triumvirat's performance was actually faultless, they left no more than a slight impression upon me due to their obvious resemblance to more highly acclaimed bands: Yes and Emerson, Lake, and Palmer for example. Innovation is a quality that Triumvirat lacked--a quality that nowadays is sufficient to make or break a band...
Mustering a great deal of valid empirical evidence, and some less valid speculation, Spender explains the movement which, over the past century, led America to eclipse England in its long-held position of literary dominance. What Emerson saw as England's "immense advantage" --that American thoughts really belonged to Europeans--is now America's. England now finds itself being drawn to America for its "contemporary energy," says Spender, in the same way that Americans were drawn to England by the force of the past. Factors that have affected the slow changeover of roles include the Americanization of European literature begun...