Word: emersonian
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...mixture of Emersonian transcendentalism, Indian mysticism and garden-variety lust, intimatism is concerned with the harmony of the individual. It holds that man alone cannot find harmony; he requires woman. Says Sébille: the only way for men & women to understand themselves better is "to love each other more." "Two by two we will vanquish egotism, cowardice, jealousy and solitude...
...Conant's outstanding characteristic as an educator is that he is interested in education-which is a point of view not as typical of college presidents as it might be. He looks on education as "a social process." as something very much a part of the community. In Emersonian fashion, he inveighs against "the recluse who has almost ceased to be a man, and whose labors in the library or the laboratory differ from stamp collecting only by the courtesy of a name." Says he: "Personally, I like the word 'relevance.' ... To my mind a scholar...
Economist Peter Drucker has written a long, able, Emersonian essay that cannot be disregarded by anyone who pretends to think about the problems of the postwar world. For it is one of the most provocative treatises on the central problem that bedevils this generation-the politico-economic structure of society...
...teaching. The old-line Trinitarians, feeling that they must train young men in the true faith, broke away from the College proper to form the Andover Seminary. With the old Puritan discipline gone, religious teaching in the College completely changed its form. The Unitarian faith, strongly tied up with Emersonian Transcendentalism, was easily shunted off into the Department of Philosophy...
...make himself well-balanced, he who must determine his set of values, he who must become interested in studying, making friends, and joining activities. The idea of maladjustment can easily be distorted through overemphasis by doctors and deans, and despite their worries America is against losing its tradition of Emersonian self-reliance. It is absurd to think that the University should be morally responsible for the fate of every Freshman, for to nurse one thousand mothers' sons can be no official...