Word: waldo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agreed to form a new interdenominational church for him. The result was the 2,500 seat, $5 million Riverside Church, above the Hudson River near Columbia University. Topped by a 28-story bell tower, Riverside drew its architectural inspiration from Chartres. Its iconography, however, included Albert Einstein and Ralph Waldo Emerson in addition to Moses and John the Disciple...
...keep a cow," Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "that cow milks me." Linder argues that the same holds true of the commodity time, and that as one result, people become slaves of the possessions and services that compete to fill their leisure hours. "One may possibly buy more of everything," he writes, "but one cannot conceivably do more of everything." To belong to a golf club as well as a sailing club is to spend half one's time going from one to the other, the other half observing all the social amenities that they entail...
...result, many elderly Medicaid recipients began an exodus from nursing homes, causing the State Department of Hospitals and Institutions to devise a "disaster plan" to find beds for the displaced. The irony of New Mexico's agony is that it was totally unnecessary. In March, State Budget Chief Waldo Anton (who has since resigned) persuaded the legislature to avoid an expected deficit by canceling Medicaid. He had been told by regional officers of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare that New Mexico could always rejoin the program later, at a level of services consistent with available money...
Above the fireplace in her Hickory Hill bedroom hang two framed quotations. One, a description of Aeschylus from Edith Hamilton's The Greek Way, reads: "Life for him was an adventure, perilous indeed, but men are not made for safe havens." The other, from Ralph Waldo Emerson, says...
Other events include a lecture-demonstration on piano accompaniment of silent films by Charles Hofman, film curator of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and a poetry-reading by Robert T. Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson Lecturer on English Literature...