...attention in the new economy, attention measurement will be everywhere. Every performer, Overheard. "Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds." Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The American Scholar" author, sports star, and politician will be painfully aware...

...one day gives, another takes." — George "Give me today, and take tomorrow." — St. John Chrysostom "Give me insight into today, and you may have the antique and future worlds." — Nietzsche "For there is no day however beautiful which has not its night." — Anonymous "Many...

...Emerson (1903; reprint, New York: AMS Press, 1968), 111, where he outlines his vision of "the common" ("I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low"). See chap. 3 of Bendix, In Search of Authenticity; and Paul F. Boiler, Jr., American Transcendentalism,...

...is a sign, — is it not? of new vigor. . . . I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic. ... I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. In obvious anticipation of his eventual protege Walt Whitman, Emerson identified himself with the rich...

...worldwide shrinking of the spirit. In the passage we have taken from "The American Scholar," Emerson says, "Give me insight into today, and you may have the antique and future worlds." In Nature he had said, "Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous."...

...great, the remote, the romantic; what is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art. or Provencal minstrelsy; I embrace the common. I explore and sit...to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. (Emerson 1849). Emerson asserts that the familiar, the trivial, the commonplace are precisely what...

...minstrelsy: I embrace the common. I explore and sit at (he feet of the faimliar. the low. Give me insight mto today. and you may have the antique and future worlds. What would we really know the meaning of?" he asked. and famously answered: "The meal in the Hrkin: the milk in the pan: the ballad in the street."51...

...great, the remote, the romantic; what is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art, or Provensal minstrelsy; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low." Like the Yankee of the fables he tended to stress the nationalistic when he touched upon the American...

...foreign parts ... the philosophy of the street. ... I ask not the great, the remote, the romantic ... I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. . . . Man is surprised to find that things near are not less beautiful and wondrous than things remote....

...nourished therein—at the end of the century. The philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson had written in 1837, "I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low" ("The American Scholar"), and for budding American painters and writers alike, the phrase became a...