Word: emersons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leading spokesman for the Unitarian cause in the early nineteenth century, Channing preached what Emerson called "sublime sermons." His was a life of the mind, as he grappled with the central issues of his day. Andrew Delbanco believes that Channing's inner life may best be understood through his public utterances, and examines the way his subject spoke as well as what he said. In his biography of Channing, the author acknowledges an abbreviation of outward detail. He prepares us quickly for our journey into William Ellery Channing's mind; we learn in six taut paragraphs that he graduated from...
Iorio noted that good coaching from Charlie Stoerey, Lucie Schulte, and Becky Emerson has greatly developed Eliot's women's squad...
...proved. It is all very well to mumble about the glorious prospect of cultural exchange, but no one is sure that such exchanges breed enhancement. A loftier argument is that the nation, as a whole, would be improved. Perhaps. The old democratic vista of Whitman and Emerson, the transcendentalist democracy of one for one and one for all sounds quite fine; it always has. Since that goal has never been achieved, however, one may argue that it is simply another tenet of American hypocrisy, or, less harshly, that it is a goal incompatible with the realities of human nature...
...other three managers are Louisa Senior '81, Eileen Clegg-Carroll, an extension student, and Kim Roberts, a student at Emerson College...
...University of Washington, introduced his Dvorak Simplified Keyboard, which groups and centralizes commonly used letters. Typists who mastered it increased their speed, but it never caught on. Dvorak once mused: "If a man makes a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to his door, but Emerson didn't say how long it would take." It took too long for Dvorak: he died...