Word: emersons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan holds a characteristically American view that great leaders affect history. When Gorbachev visited Washington last December, the President quoted Emerson: "There is properly no history, only biography." This meant, Reagan explained, "that it is not enough to talk about history as simply forces and factors." In some ways Reagan was right: his personal ideology and stubbornness have led to a nascent strategic-arms accord far more ambitious than anyone would have imagined when he took office. Yet in more fundamental ways, the agreement being shaped is not all that different from a SALT III treaty that a President Walter...
...football trainer Dick Emerson] worked closely with Dr. Boland, consulting to put together a rehabilitation program," says football player Bryan D. Gescuk '88. Gescuk has spent about two hours a day stretching and strengthening his right knee since he tore several ligaments in October...
...make athletes comfortable, the trainers maintain a relaxed atmosphere in the training room. "Emo kept a friendly relationship with all the players," says football player Tony M. Consigli '89. When students talk about their social lives, Emerson joins in, Consigli says. "They start talking about the night before, and he rags on kids for it. I wait for the day when we find out something about...
Quote of the Week:"I haven't had this much fun since the pigs ate my brother," said Harvard's Trainer Dick Emerson at a frigid Soldiers Field during Harvard's doubleheader against Norhteastern...
...highest civilization," wrote Emerson, "the book is still the highest delight." Well, not for Michael Milken, particularly since he is the book's subject. The controversial junk-bond financier reportedly offered to pay Writer Connie Bruck to give up work on her book about him and his investment firm, Drexel Burnham Lambert. "I do not want it to be done. Why don't we pay you for all the copies you would have sold -- if you had written it," Milken suggested to Bruck after she began working on the project in 1986, according to an extract of the manuscript obtained...