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Lowell won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1947 and had been the Ralph Waldo Emerson Lecturer on English Literature at Harvard...
COMING HOME Directed by Hal Ashby Screenplay by Waldo Salt and Robert C. Jones
...piano and cello recital tonight with Roy Kogan and Greg Colburn playing works of Beethoven and Brahms. The concert is at 8:30 p.m. in Adams Lower Common Room. Also, the Thursday Noon Recital Series at the Busch-Reisinger Museum continues today. Larry Phillips performs at the organ, Andrew Waldo on the recorder and Carol Lewis on the viola da gamba. The concert is free and open to the public. Call 495-2317 for more details of the weekly series...
...discusses the celebrated 1801 Cane Ridge revival, a bizarre religious event in Kentucky where, according to contemporary accounts, thousands fell into frenzied ecstasies. Wood captures none of its manic exuberance. In part three (1820-1860), David Brion Davis by contrast manages to make the often opaque character of Ralph Waldo Emerson both fascinating and comprehensible. Davis, who won his Pulitzer for The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture, also offers a splendid essay on the Mormon experience as a paradigm of American dissent: a people at odds with society while yearning to be part...
...most interesting aspects of the play was Thoreau's relationship with his idol and elder, Ralph Waldo Emerson. At one point in the play, Thoreau lambasts Emerson for not taking a stand against the Mexican War. Emerson sighs and says...