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...UNCLE HARRISON'S "LOG CABIN...
Once again the myth of William Henry Harrison as "the embodiment of homey rural virtues, the candidate of the log cabin" has surfaced, this time in Jeff Greenfield's piece "I'm Just That Simple" [ESSAY, June 10]. Greenfield does not seem to know that Harrison, my great-great-great-great-granduncle, was a patrician, born into the landed aristocracy of the James River. His father Benjamin was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and the master of Berkeley Plantation. The plantation house in which Harrison was born stands today, open to the public. It bears little resemblance...
...hates the term guru, yet that is the term applied to him by Demi Moore, who (along with Naomi Judd and George Harrison) sits on the board of advisers for his soon-to-open healing center in La Jolla, California. Other devotees include Michael Jackson, Donna Karan and Michael Milken. Chopra remains unvalidated by the gatekeepers of higher culture: Bill Moyers has yet to interview him. Nevertheless, PBS stations have not seen fit to abjure the millions they make by playing Chopra's vastly popular lecture tapes during their subscription drives. Dozens of CEOs swear by him publicly...
...enduring? Before we had a Constitution, Thomas Jefferson was arguing that the new nation's future would depend on a base of agrarian yeomen free from the vices inherent in big cities. One of the classic, image-driven presidential campaigns featured William Henry Harrison as the embodiment of homey rural virtues, the candidate of the log cabin and hard cider, defeating the incumbent Martin Van Buren, who was accused of dandified dress and manners. One of Van Buren's more vocal detractors was Davy Crockett, who went from frontiersman to the U.S. Congress without ever trading in his coonskin...
...remembers bringing his daughters to the NBC studios when he was interviewing "Star Wars" superstars Billy Dee Williams and Harrison Ford...