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...later sharpened by America's growth and by massive immigration. "Here," claims Spender, "were the horns of the dilemma: the combination of political independence and cultural colonization." Henry James, living in Europe and trying to create a balanced Anglo-American style of writing, was, in ambition, eons away from Emerson or Whitman. To some, Europe seemed to stifle America's literary development; to others, it was the center of western spiritual values, wherein lay the roots of a new American literary tradition...
...fastest-selling rock albums in the U.S. nowadays is a three-LP set by a British group, Emerson, Lake & Palmer. It includes mod versions of Aaron Copland's Hoedown, a movement from Alberto Ginastera's First Piano Concerto and even Sir Charles Parry's great old Anglican choral song Jerusalem. Also rising on the charts is an LP by a Dutch group called Focus that sounds at times like a combo of English madrigalists. In Detroit this week, English Rock Star Rick Wakeman begins a month-long U.S. tour featuring some unusual sidemen: Classical Conductor David Measham...
...even here, there was no clear-cut division. Most of the members of the new Graduate School committees also belonged to the union. Conversely, imaginative Officials are as eager as Emerson could have wished to hitch their wagons to a star. Last spring, Quincy House was plastered with leaflets explaining CHUL candidates' positions on everything from women's rights to fighting imperialism...
...COSELL MOUTH, presented for candid comments and pithy phrases, is awarded to trainer Dick Emerson, who had the best dugout commentary this season...
Like the Chautauqua and Lyceum orators, Pirsig is an inveterate moralist. In common with Emerson and the other nineteenth century American Romantics he bemoans the predicament of manufactured man and extolls "self-reliance" and "gumption" and the kind of knowledge that is not to be found in books but only at the cutting edge of experience. But Pirsig also recognizes that "self-reliance" has become the philosophy of American greed and reaction and that the familiar Romantic exhortations about experience and immediacy do not penetrate very far into technology nor into its scientific underpinning. For him the problem is that...