Word: emersons
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When a man becomes dear to me I have touched the goal of fortune," said Emerson. Still, he was bemused: "I find very little written directly to the heart of this matter." One hundred and forty years later, sociologists have probed the phenomenon of male bonding, and movies have celebrated buddies in times of war and peace. But deep attachments between men still activate suspicions of misogyny or homosexuality. Few books have been written about the real friendships of real people. Thus it took a quantum of cultural courage for David Michaelis, 25, to undertake the subject. It was worth...
That is not quite what Emerson had in mind in his 1841 essay on "Friendship." Still, in all seven cases, Michaelis aptly demonstrates what the transcendentalist meant when he said that men are bound "by every sort of tie, by blood, by pride, by fear, by hope . . . by every circumstance and badge and trifle." By Patricia Blake
...Lowenstein to shift to his camp. Torn between friendship and respect for Kennedy and his commitment to back McCarthy, Lowenstein said no Kennedy retreated to the back of the bus on which the group was riding, and scribbled Lowenstein a note. "For A1, who knew the lesson of Emerson and taught it to the rest of us," it read. "They did not yet see ... that if a single man plant himself on his convictions and then abide, the huge world will come round to him. From his friend, Bob Kennedy...
...August 10, 1914, at the age of two, Tuchman stood on the deck on an Italian liner, and watched two German warships exchange shots with the British cruiser Gloucester on the horizon. The ships soon disappeared, but, as Emerson wrote on another historic occasion, the shots echoed round the world. Although neither Tuchman nor the other passengers knew it at the time, they had just witnessed the opening battle of World...