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Selections were taken from the Bhagavad Gita, the Greek New Testament, works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and New England's First Fruits. The latter is the earliest account of the work of Harvard College students and faculty...
...collection will display the originaledition of the 1640 Massachusetts Bay Psalm Book,the first book printed in English America and acopy of Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1838 Divinity Schooladdress...
...that can be thought can be written," says Rhodes, quoting Ralph Waldo Emerson. Fair enough, but writing explicitly about sex requires a more delicate touch. It takes only a few pages to realize he is in the grip of graphomania. Flesh must become word. His style swings from confessional to clinical, from pop psych to steamy paperback prose: "Her body fired explosively, every muscle contracting, and her back arched grand mal off the bed from the abutments of her feet and her shoulders." A passage comparing his own orgasm to a thermonuclear explosion may start a chain reaction of giggles...
ANYONE WHO HAS SEEN THE PLAYER knows how screenwriters are usually treated in Hollywood: either they're laughed off or they're bumped off. PBS'S AMERICAN MASTERS series makes a case for respect this week with Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey, a lovely tribute to a Hollywood survivor. Salt had penned several successful films in the 1930s and '40s (The Shopworn Angel) when he was forced into exile by the blacklist. The script assignments eventually returned, but his talent didn't: his name first reappeared on dogs like Taras Bulba. But Salt made a comeback with his powerful...
...supply is periodically replenished by write-in contests and the efforts of various adverstising agencies, although some are direct quotes from famous people (four from Benjamin Franklin, one each from Confucius, Thomas Edison and Ralph Waldo Emerson...