Word: emersons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soon becomes apparent whence Tuchman's own inspiration comes. "Poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians, and sometimes they have given history a push," she writes in her opening piece. Throughout the collection, she turns again and again to poetry, quoting Emerson, Kipling, Longfellow, Tennyson and Poe. In the end she concludes, "What the poets did was to convey the feeling of an episode or a moment of history as they sensed it. The historian's task is rather to tell what happened within discussion of facts...
...night, Hall came at me with a big double-cut and the blade just snapped off the hilt of my sword. I froze, but Japes Emerson, who was playing Hall, knew immediately what to do--he jumped me. My sword went clattering away and we started wrestling on the ground. We were making the whole fight up as we went along now, and in the middle of it, I realized that if I died on my back, I couldn't make my final speech. See, I wanted to collapse during my speech--to show this great ebbing of life...
...Ferrante walk is to know why she meshes so well with the game of soccer. Her nickname, coined by Harvard football trainer Dick Emerson as he watched her walk across the practice field one day this fall, is "Swivel". Swivel, as in Swivel Hips. If there's such a thing as a fluid walk, this is it. Arms swinging at her side, lower body rotating independent of her upper body, she moves as though there isn't a tense muscle in her body...
...well as the country and the world. The current obsession with the body can partly be seen as a diminished expression of the old or of unquenchable American optimism. "Here's for the plain old Adam, the simple genuine self against the whole world." So Ralph Waldo Emerson toasted the American spirit. But the "old" Adam, that rugged and predatory individualist, in his current incarnation is caught in a dilemma: how to survive an increasingly imperfect, not to say hostile, environment...
...first Peabody-Mason concert (last Sunday afternoon) presented the Emerson string quartet--an award-winning group that in five years has become one of the world's leading string quartets--playing a program of Beethoven, Puccini, Stravinsky, and Debussy. Later concerts in this six-part series will feature performances by the New York Vocal Arts Ensemble, pianists Michael Borskin, Noel Lee, and Andrew Rangell, and the tenor Rolf Bjorling...