Word: emersonic
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...sitting in your "Myth of America" section, and the demure, totally glam English grad student asks you to analyze and describe the mythic aspects of an L.L. Bean ad. A first-year jumps up and starts to shout: "The frontier, Daniel Boone, Emerson, mythic contradictions, Poe as the anti-mother, Freud, Oedipus, Daniel Cooper..." He bites his tongue off and blood begins to spurt out of his mouth...
Pusey managed to raise $82.5 million over two years, far outstripping all Harvard fundraising efforts to that date. Some of the building funds went into renovating the Yard dorms, Boylston, Emerson, Harvard and Lehman Halls...
...reading, which is being sent to students as part of a publication called the Harvard College News, consists of essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Dubois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr., President Neil L. Rudenstine and Faye Chiu '95, Epps said...
...essays are: "Self-Reliance" by Emerson. "The Ethics of Identity" by Gates, a transcript of Rudenstine's 1992 Commencement speech and Chiu's essay. "Masquerade Attired in the Robes of the Woman Warrior," from the winter 1993 issue of Tian, a Chinese-American student magazine...
...essay, Gates argues that racial differences should be perme- able experiences rather than rigid boundaries. Chiu's piece discusses cultural exchange between the East and the West. The Emerson work is a celebration of the individual...