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Take time to honor Emerson
From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Date: 20030513
Author:Deseret News editorial
On a wintry New England day, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson -- three great American writers -- went ice skating together. Hawthorne's wife accompanied them. Later, she wrote that her husband was the most elegant skater of the three, Thoreau was the most flamboyant, but Emerson was the steadiest and surest, moving at his own pace with easy deliberation.
So it was with their writing.
Waldo Emerson was always the steady one, the anchor.
May 25th is Emerson's birthday, and this year marks his bicentennial. And the commemorations planned -- like the man himself - - ...
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