Audio & eBook Video TutorialTolkien - Official SiteIn 1943 Langston Hughes wrote: "When Dorie Miller took gun in hand Jim Crow started his last stand ..."![]() How a college dropout in New Hampshire found a Shakespeare secret all the PhDs missed. If there was one thing he was good at, it was teaching himself a subject that interested him. He'd wormed his way into the field of biology and written papers embraced by its practitioners. He was confident he could crack the code of Shakespeare studies as well.
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ho·mo·phone
ˈhäməˌfōn,ˈhōməˌfōn/ noun plural noun: homophones
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![]() Hemingway’s World War I savior is anonymous no more![]() He may be one of the most important figures in the history of 20th- century literature, yet he never published a word. Instead it was in dying that this man made his mark. He was an Italian soldier stationed in a trench along the Piave River in northern Italy during World War I. On a summer’s night in the final year of the war, he stood directly in front of 18-year-old Ernest Hemingway, who was distributing candy and cigarettes as a Red Cross volunteer. When an Austrian mortar landed near the soldier, he was killed instantly. Hemingway sustained extensive wounds but survived because the soldier’s body took the brunt of the explosion. Had it not been for the soldier there would be no “The Sun Also Rises,” “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” “The Old Man and the Sea.”
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Too Much Self-Reliance?
“Self-Reliance.” Did the great Ralph Waldo Emerson get it wrong? Have we? Have we turned self-reliance into self-centeredness? Early in the heart of the 19th Century, young America was in trouble. A brutal economic bust. Banks collapsing all over. Confidence, wavering. And here came the brilliant transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, like a blazing star. Trust yourselves, he said. Look inside. Speak what you think in hard words. Above all, embrace self-reliance. And boy did that go deep. It’s American bedrock. Maybe too deep, says my guest today. It’s become self-centeredness. Polarizing rigidity. This hour, On Point: Emerson, and the most American debate – can you have too much self-reliance? Too Much Self-Reliance?“Self-Reliance.” Did the great Ralph Waldo Emerson get it wrong? Have we? Have we turned self-reliance into self-centeredness? |