Young Americans are leaving the city to return to the land, and the New York Times is on it, well the Style section is covering the trend. Is this just some fashion trend or are these the young Americans Emerson was looking for?
posted on Mar 16, 2008 - View this thread

Aphorisms: "A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense." [ram] Journalist, gnomologist and author James Geary has just released Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists [Amazon. recent NPR interview here]. It draws from such aphorists as Shakespeare, Voltaire, Emerson, Shaw, Mae West, Woody Allen and Steven Wright. Also discussed is chiasmus, the Jefferson Bible and some meta. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in your reading have been like the blast of triumph..."
posted on Oct 2, 2007 - View this thread

The six string quartets of Béla Bartók: A guide for performers and listeners, by the Emerson Quartet...
posted on Mar 6, 2007 - View this thread

Ralph Waldo Emerson turns 200 today.
posted on May 25, 2003 - View this thread