Word: waldo
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...recent portrait of Lee Harvey Oswald, Norman Mailer quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "On Heroism," in an attempt to understand the mind of the killer. "[Heroism's] jest is the littleness of common life. Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good," Emerson wrote. "Now to no other man can wisdom appear as it does...
...that time, he would have fought to the death for the Emperor. But when Murayama, the son of a simple fisherman, attended university after the war, his view of traditional authority changed. He read Marx and became a socialist. He joined a club devoted to the study of Ralph Waldo Emerson, who put him on guard against the foolish consistencies that are the hobgoblins of little minds. Last week the Prime Minister broke ranks with the little minds in his government and spoke out on Japan's wartime actions with an unqualified repentance never heard from his predecessors...
...Ralph Waldo Emerson's statement "To be great is to be misunderstood" was made for Dole. For that reason, it was nice to read your balanced report about him. After studying Dole for years, I'm ready to follow the man across the Pacific in a leaky rowboat. JAKE M. COLLINS Rochester, New Hampshire...
...spoke with my family," Waldo said. "My mom was at the house about eight miles north of the city, and she said she could feel the house shake. Mydad was in an office building about two blocksaway and he said it felt like an airplane hadcrashed into the building...
Harvard's very own Ralph Waldo Emerson realized the danger of conformity and the value of conflicting ideas. Conformity leads to stagnation and the eventual demise of intellectual life. Harvard has the responsibility of exposing its students to more than just the analytical philosophy that currently monopolizes the podiums of Emerson Hall...