Word: emersonic
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...long-time resident of Concord, Mass. Bates moved to Maine after he retired in 1965. He was chair of three planning committees in Concord, an officer of the town's antiquarian society, and a vice president of Emerson Hospital...
...that can be thought can be written," says Rhodes, quoting Ralph Waldo Emerson. Fair enough, but writing explicitly about sex requires a more delicate touch. It takes only a few pages to realize he is in the grip of graphomania. Flesh must become word. His style swings from confessional to clinical, from pop psych to steamy paperback prose: "Her body fired explosively, every muscle contracting, and her back arched grand mal off the bed from the abutments of her feet and her shoulders." A passage comparing his own orgasm to a thermonuclear explosion may start a chain reaction of giggles...
...grass was as green as I had imagined, the trees abundant and elegantly placed in the Yard. And to my delight, it was the very same field of grass in which Emerson and Thoreau had slept and studied...
...thoughts, ifthat was what I wanted to do. One day after RobertKiely's English class, I got up to leave, stunnedby his eloquent lecture and, again, frustrated bymy inability to concentrate and utilize thiswealth of intellectual opportunity. I shuffled outwith Charmaine and, as we passed through the doorof Emerson 105 I told her I was going to get someapple...
Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Norman K. Mailer '43 delighted an audience of more than 100 in Emerson Hall this weekend, reading an unpublished work an fielding questions with characteristic eloquence...