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Nevertheless, two of the most influential early American poets—Henry David Thoreau 1837 and Ralph Waldo Emerson 1821—went to Harvard, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a professor here for years. Harvard was the most obvious college for the second great generation of American poets. One of T.S. Eliot’s cousins was Charles Eliot 1853, President of Harvard, and E.E. Cummings’ father was a professor...
Only good things can come from mixing hard liquor with humor, so hop on the T and head to the Comedy Connection for The Jameson Irish Whiskey Comedy Tour, featuring Jeff Caldwell, Nick Griffin, Danny Bevins and Ralph Harris. Smuggle in a flask if you’re under...
...become the brooding teenage hunk, fitting into the cheap, star-studded framework of Hollywood aesthetics. In the novel, Harry is exceptional for being a bookish hero; in the movie, for being some sort of jailbait Adonis. Even worse, the supporting actors—creepy Alan Rickman and noseless Ralph Fiennes—are beautiful people who have fun dressing down. Yet for the child protagonists, good looks are a must...
...RALPH, one of four ministers who oversaw weeks of intensive counseling for disgraced evangelical leader Ted Haggard, who admitted to improprieties involving a male prostitute...
...biography of the literary heroes of Transcendentalism, I just can’t get behind this style of all hype and no substance. In a delivery disastrously aimed at the hip-intellectual readership, Susan Cheever’s “American Bloomsbury” reduces Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau to a group of 19th Century Bennifers and Brangelinas. Cheever aims to make “Bloomsbury” a colorful yet historically accurate piece of literary criticism, and her ostensible desire to liberate her subjects from the stuffy realm...