Word: emersons
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When it comes to service and style, the mass (as opposed to class) hotels barely provide what Ralph Waldo Emerson thought was the minimum for a worthy inn: ". . . a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet." Many of the small hotels, on the other hand, feature decors that may include a Velasquez in the lobby (San Diego's Westgate) or enough brass to occupy a full-time polisher (Washington's Fairfax), plus fine restaurants, valets who will return a pressed suit in 30 minutes and arrangements with local tradesmen to provide books and other items...
Research and discussion, not protest, bring changes in a university, President Bok told 110 student delegates of the Association for College Research and Communication (ACRC) at Emerson Hall yesterday...
...spoke out early against South African apartheid and for Namibian independence. As an antiwar activist he won his greatest success, turning his lonely struggle to "Dump Johnson" into a mass movement. This feat drew from Robert Kennedy praise, "For Al, who knew the lesson of Emerson and taught it to the rest of us: `... if a single man plant himself on his convictions and then abide, the huge world will come round...
...path to the Knesses' door may have been beaten simply because of the Ketch-All Automatic Mouse Trap, Patent No. 2433913. But Emerson suggested an additional reason for this family's success: "Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing...
Some fellows named Lowell, Emerson, Longfellow and Holmes thrashed out the idea with several others over oysters, steak and Burgundy at the Parker House in Boston. Their aim was a truly American magazine that would "concentrate the efforts of the best writers upon literature and politics, under the light of the highest morals." They succeeded admirably. In the 123 years since that founding dinner, the Atlantic Monthly has been a bastion of Yankee rectitude and high literary purpose...