Word: emersonic
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...taxi driver; tipsy Uncle Billy; the man at the window who watches George court Mary and tells him to "kiss her"; the good-hearted, decorously loose woman (Gloria Grahame)--they do what friends are supposed to do, which outwardly is not all that much. Bacon, Montaigne, Emerson and a few brave others who attempted to write essays on the subject failed to define friendship because, unlike romantic love, the emotion is generally undemonstrative; it is made up of the things we do not do--betray, belittle, be harsh. When it does manifest itself, we often don't see it coming...
...EMERSON QUARTET, SHOSTAKOVICH STRING QUARTETS: Shostakovich turned Stalin's Great Terror into art in his 15 string quartets, a laceratingly vivid document interpreted here by America's greatest quartet...
...enjoy your individual identity. And that's what we do most of the time. There are occasions, such as wars, depressions, Lucky Lindy heroics, the deaths of great figures that beckon us back to the unified entity. Generally, though, we are the United States of Solitude--private celebrators of Emerson's self-reliance who, like the melancholy lady, vant to be alone...
...overcome her grief. And it's quite possible that simple self-preservation has been the impetus for many of the 41 widows who've taken over their husbands' seats in Congress since 1900, whose ranks include current Representatives Mary Bono, widow of Sonny Bono, and Missouri's Jo Ann Emerson. Once they've made it into office, however, many of these women have gone on to win regular elections, and to establish themselves in their own right as skilled politicians...
...acquaintences with such socially concerned luminaries as Robert Kennedy and Dororthy Day, but his book also makes use of his experiences during the Civil Rights Movement and other episodes of social and political conflict. Coles takes these experiences, along with a few musings on authors like Conrad and Emerson (which would probably fit very will within the curriculum of Gen. Ed. 105) and presents them as a sort of reader on the qualities of moral leadership-not just to lead, but to lead well...