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...believe in the Moping Dog doctrine. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote about the inconsistencies of human behavior: "It seems as if heaven had sent its insane angels into our world as to an asylum, and here they will break out in their native music and utter at intervals the words they have heard in heaven; then the mad fit returns and they mope and wallow like dogs...
...label should be at least binary, like Dickens' "the best of + times, the worst of times," again no metaphor. It is a fallacy to think there is one theme. Like all ages, it is a time of angels and moping dogs -- after Ralph Waldo Emerson's lines: "It seems as if heaven had sent its insane angels into our world as to an asylum, and here they will break out in their native music and utter at intervals the words they have heard in heaven; then the mad fit returns and they mope and wallow like dogs...
Hall is on leave this fall, but will teach a course entitled "Liberalism and Orthodoxy, 1750-1890" in the spring. He was brought to Harvard with a grant from the Ralph Waldo Emerson Fund for Unitarian Universalist Studies, an endowment created last year by several Unitarian Universalist groups...
...Arts and an environmental group he started, the Institute for Resource Management. Explains Gary Beer, 38, president of Sundance Group: "Government funding for the arts is down, and we'd like to be self-sufficient." While consumers may be hungry for Redford's hot sauce ($25), the Great Waldo Pepper will have to sell a lot of chili to match beans with L.L. Bean...
...Writers, too," I respond more thoughtfully. "Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, the other Adamses (Charles, Francis and Henry), T .S. Eliot, John Reed, Wallace Stevens, Ursula LeGuin, Walter Lippman, John Updike and Erich Segal...