Word: emersonian
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...famous." Lee also likens his own poetry to "a mission," but he's no firebrand proselytizer. His tone throughout this collection is that of the soft-spoken, ecumenical humanist. A mini-aubade in "Become Becoming" likens dawn ("the air's first gold") to "that color of Amen." In the Emersonian "Evening Hieroglyph" he compares flitting birds to "decimals or numerals reconfiguring/ some word which, spoken, might sound the key/ that rights the tumblers in the iron lock/ that keeps the gate dividing me from...
However, it is the morose and chubby Bootie, Murray’s nephew, who really manages to stir things up. A college dropout from rural upstate New York, Bootie comes to the city clinging to a fierce, somewhat naïve Emersonian ideal of autodidactic self-reliance...
...with the old Calvinists,” says Gomes. “[The movement] led the way to what eventually became a secularizing process.”Gomes says the sea change came in 1869 with the inauguration of University President Charles W. Eliot, who drew on Unitarian and Emersonian ideals in laying out a revolutionary treatise of higher education. “The worthy fruit of academic culture is an open mind,” Eliot said, “trained to careful thinking, instructed in the methods of philosophic investigation, acquainted in a general way with the accumulated...
...Well actually,” says Mr. Popped Collar, “I think one could take an Emersonian response to this question if we look at it through the lens of Hegelian dialectical theory...
...enough to think about politics without recognizing that each of us is more complex than any Emersonian ideal. We are more than merely isolated individuals aiming for a monogamous, white picket fenced-in American dream. The myth of the individual self only leads to an acceptance of politics as boiling down into an economic game, waged by those who consider it worthwhile after weighing its costs and potential benefits...