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...century: the hundred-year collapse of America's "communal ties." And he knows who did it. For undermining "the authenticating offices of the family and society" and putting a wobble in America's "sense of direction since the mid-nineteenth century," Wanted, Dead or Alive: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman and Henry James...
...were all a little mad that winter," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson, recalling the emotional excitement of 1840. "Not a man of us that did not have a plan for some new Utopia in his pocket." As common as a handkerchief and as casually displayed. Today, pockets seem to be empty of anything so inspiring. People are doubtless as distressed about social conditions as they were in 1840, but what has happened to Utopia? Those once myriad visions of ideal societies have all but disappeared, or have been transmogrified into the demonic dreams of science-fiction. Gone are the blessed isles...
Back in Hollis Hall now, Ralph Waldo's room is packed John Dos Passos '16 and Edward Estlin Cummings (i.e. e. e.) '15 have come over from Thayer 29. stopping on the way in Thayer 15 for James Agee '32, co-author of Let Us Now Praise Famous...
Room 5 in Hollis Hall is under lock and key until later this month, when members of the Class of '74 will break it in all over again. Sunlight falls across the bare desk and plank floorboards like giant, felled sequoias. Ralph Waldo Emerson lived there in 1820, and he lives again these days, as does Henry David Thoreau in Hollis 23, where he roomed a decade later. Two doors down from him lived the early 20th century philosopher Santayana. John Hoyer Updike '54 spent freshman year in Hollis...
...Ralph Waldo Emerson...