I took a deep breath and an even deeper swallow of my drink, and said, `` I admit that going back to Ralph Waldo Emerson for humor is like going to a modern musical comedy for music and comedy ''.

After graduating with the Emerson Class of 1979, he took a job at the school teaching comedy writing classes and maintained the job for five years.

After Bruce McLaren died in a testing accident in 1970, Teddy Mayer took over and led the team to their first Formula One constructors ' championship in 1974, with Emerson Fittipaldi and James Hunt winning the drivers ' championship in 1974 and 1976 respectively.

The L-100 took plenty of abuse during the stage act and was usually reinforced, to the point where it weighed so much that, on at least one occasion, Emerson became trapped beneath it and had to be rescued by a roadie.

After purchasing Scott, Emerson took him to Fort Armstrong, which was located in Illinois.

When Dr. Emerson died the following year, his widow took over the estate.

" Emerson later took offense that this letter was made public and would become more critical of the work.

Andrew Loog Oldham took it upon himself to rename The Little People Apostolic Intervention, and dubbed the Emerson, Jackson, Davison, O ' List group " The Nice ".

Allen took piano lessons as a boy, his father having brought an Emerson upright along when they moved in with his aunt.

Formed in the bicentennial year of the United States, the Emerson String Quartet took its name from the great American poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Later Loos would claim that Emerson took all of the money and most of the credit for projects, even though his contribution usually consisted of observing from bed as Loos worked.

Emerson finally joined Loos in London, and to keep his spirits up she took him to the theatre every night.

This placebo treatment did the trick and when they returned a cured Emerson took great pleasure in showing off his little sloshy trophy.

They took as their inspiration such European masters as Claude Lorrain, John Constable and J. M. W. Turner, and shared a reverence for America's natural beauty with contemporary American writers such as Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

With Hendrix confirmed, artists such as Chicago, The Doors, The Who, Miles Davis, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Jethro Tull, Sly & the Family Stone, Ten Years After, Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Free willingly took up the chance to play there.

Though Emerson College has moved to various locations within the city of Boston, the appointment of Allen E. Koenig ( the ninth president of Emerson College ) almost took the college completely outside of Boston.

Emerson Fittipaldi took the 500 and also beat Mears to the Championship in the last race at Laguna Seca, despite Mears winning that race.

During the mid-19th century, spurred by the painters of the Hudson River School and transcendentalist philosophers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, an interest in mountains as a respite from industrialization and urbanization took hold in New England.

During his music studies he concurrently took several writing and comedy classes at Emerson College.

Emerson misunderstood Ginastera's meaning: Ginastera spoke almost no English and meant that their interpretation was frightening, which had been his intent when he wrote it ; Emerson, being British, took it to mean " awful ".

The first Judson concert took place on July 6, 1962, with dance works presented by Steve Paxton, Freddie Herko, David Gordon, Alex and Deborah Hay, Yvonne Rainer, Elaine Summers, William Davis, and Ruth Emerson.

Emerson, in his lecture, refers to the `` startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight, that particular passages of conversation and action have occurred to him in the same order before, whether dreaming or waking, a suspicion that they have been with precisely these persons in precisely this room, and heard precisely this dialogue, at some former hour, they know not when ''.

While at Emerson, he met fellow comic Mario Cantone, whom to this day Leary considers his closest friend.

Comedian Steven Wright and actress Gina Gershon also attended Emerson at the same time as Leary.

The people whom the young woman met at the Brays ' house included Robert Owen, Herbert Spencer, Harriet Martineau and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

" Ralph Waldo Emerson famously declared ", " Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist "— a point of view developed at length in both the life and work of ( Henry David ) Thoreau.

* 1838 – Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God.

Berry and Torrence met while students at Emerson Junior High School in Westwood, Los Angeles and were both on the school's football team.

In this vein, he was initially a Computer engineering major at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ( RPI ) in Troy, New York, but moved to Boston, Massachusetts in 1990 and attended Emerson College, where he studied videography and graphic design.

In a speech delivered at Salem, Mass., on January 6, 1860, to raise money for the families of the executed abolitionist John Brown and his followers, Ralph Waldo Emerson calls Brown an example of true chivalry, which consists not in noble birth but in helping the weak and defenseless and declares that " Walter Scott would have delighted to draw his picture and trace his adventurous career ".

This Emerson set also had a single tube socket, but because it used a four-pin base, the additional element connections were made on a " mezzanine " platform at the top of the tube base.

In May 2012, a Belarusian production directed by Anastasia Grinenko ( Belarus ), with choreography by Paul Emerson ( USA ) and Dmitry Yakubovich ( Belarus ) opened at the Belarus State Musical Theatre.

He finished third behind his former team-mate Nigel Mansell and Emerson Fittipaldi in the sole 2005 race at Kyalami, South Africa.

Emerson wrote the eulogy spoken at his funeral.

* Emerson & Thoreau at C-SPAN's American Writers: A Journey Through History

Amalthea was discovered on September 9, 1892, by Edward Emerson Barnard using the 36 inch ( 91 cm ) refractor telescope at Lick Observatory.

Keith Emerson and Greg Lake, both exploring options outside of their current bands, met at Fillmore West in San Francisco and on working together, found their styles to be compatible and complementary.

" They had actually shared the same venues in 1969 – Emerson in The Nice and Lake in King Crimson, first at the 9th Jazz and Blues Pop Festival in Plumpton, England, and at Fairfield Halls in Croydon, England.

Keith Emerson, Greg Lake, and Carl Palmer at a record store signing, Toronto, February, 1978.

released a 2-CD set of Emerson, Lake and Palmer recorded live in 9 February 1978 at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York called Live at Nassau Coliseum 78.

Factory released a single-CD set of Emerson, Lake and Palmer recorded live in 2 April 1972 at the Mar Y Sol Festival, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico called Live at the Mar Y Sol Festival ' 72.