In “The Late George Apley,” Ronald Colman, playing the stuffy Bostonian of the film’s title, has on his shelf of classics a collection of Ralph Waldo ... and you snap the sinews with your sumptuary ...

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Way back in 1858, Ralph Waldo Emerson, the great philosopher and poet ... This year, I set out early in the morning in my canoe with a company of my own: environmental activist and writer Bill ...