Word: emersonian
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Kevin Jarre's script makes no direct comment on these matters, and a squad of fine actors ground the film in felt reality: Denzel Washington is a proud and badly misused troublemaker; Driving Miss Daisy's Morgan Freeman a steadying influence; Andre Braugher a Harvard student who finds Emersonian idealism of small help in mastering the bayonet. It is the movie's often awesome imagery and a bravely soaring choral score by James Horner that transfigure the reality, granting it the status of necessary myth. Broad, bold, blunt, Glory is everything that a film like Miss Daisy, all nuance...
...postmodern randomness of the the quintessential American philosopher, Reebok is trying to address not only our need to buy any particular brand of ads is meant to stress individuality and uniqueness, as does Emerson's philosophy. But the ads distort that philosophy by implying that Emersonian self reliance can be found in, of all things, sneakers...
...merely a self-indulgent vacation from the real world, even an orgy of narcissism on a national scale. At times the rhetoric of "feeling good about America" bordered on the autoerotic. But the new atmosphere was alive with a great energy. The land was acrawl with entrepreneurs and Emersonian yuppies sounding the official cheer of 1984: "Go for it!" The belief was reborn that Americans can do--well, anything...
...world's tribe of Emersonians has dwindled, but it is still a moderately robust and sometimes unlikely collection. André Gide enjoyed Emerson; discovering that is like learning (in the other direction) that the theologian Paul Tillich had a taste for pornography. Ex-Coach Woody Hayes of Ohio State University is a passionate Emersonian. That makes more sense. Part of Emerson-only a part-is a bright theology of pep, a half-time transcendentalism. "Emerson," says Hayes, "he's on my starting eleven"-meaning the authors Hayes most regularly rereads. "In fact...
Perhaps the 20th century is merely one of the moping-dog phases. It may be the sin of pride to claim so much evil and despair for oneself. The Black Death killed off one-third of Western and Central Europe in the 14th century, but in the Emersonian calendar of the perfectible universe, it was only a temporary epidemic - something that was going around...