Word: emersons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grew older, his mind seemed to become livelier (he came to be known as "Old Man Eloquent"), and no combination of the ailments that plagued him could keep him from his job. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: "He is like one of those old cardinals, who, as quick as he is chosen Pope, throws away his crutches and his crookedness, and is as straight as a boy. He is an old roue who cannot live on slops, but must have sulphuric acid in his tea." Sulphuric he remained to the very end. In February 1848 a resolution was proposed...
...clock: For the wandering scholar Scandinavian 50 provides useful literary, artistic, and social cultural information about the Scandinavian countries. This can be acquired with no knowledge of the Scandinavian languages. Returning after a year's absence, Robert Chapman brings with him drama from Ibsen to Helman. The stage is Emerson D. History of Religions 101b offers a unique opportunity. Interested students can become Hindus, Brahmins, Buddhists, and Moslems--for about a week or two apiece. For those who prefer, there are also selected Christian heretical doctrines...
Thenceforward, the Holmes house reverted to staidness. The Justice was born elsewhere, coming only in his College days to visit his grandmother and uncle, of whom Emerson said something to the effect that 'John Holmes has humor, while Oliver has only wit.' Boston's poet laureate returned in 1871, literally at least, to poke around the garret and compare it to "a seashore, where wrecks are thrown up and slowly go to pieces...
Conversation (Thurs. 9:30p.m.,NBC). "Do Women Dress for Men?" discussed by Clifton Fadiman, Faye Emerson, Jacques Barzun...
Earlier this year, Doty, Ed McKirdy, and George Skokan matched strength with Emerson, Boston University, Northeastern, and Eastern Nazarene lifters in the P.B.H. clinic...