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The Road to Somewhere The Road to Somewhere Take a minute, and think about the venerable 1980s situation comedy "Cheers" and the opening line to its theme song:
anything, and you're saying that I'm the cheap one." I would have paid for something somewhere down the road. I'm not some kind of gold digger that is just out to
this loneliness is apparent, there is also left the possibility for happiness somewhere down the road. "Because I could Not Stop for Death" is one of Emily Dickinson's
already had it done may feel feelings of remorse and guilt either right after, or somewhere down the road. Having other people attack them for what they did would
boonies, far from pedestrians, traffic, and all other obstacles, was a narrow dirt road that lead to, well, somewhere. Surrounded by big green wheat fields, and some
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The Road to Somewhere
Take a minute, and think about the venerable 1980s situation comedy "Cheers" and the opening line to its theme song: "Making your way in the world today takes everything you've got."
Henry Adams did not live to see "Cheers" or television's invention, but it is possible to say his life had a parallel coda to those lyrics. Adams was not different from many high-society New Englanders in the 19th century. Adams was an American aristocrat, the grandson and great-grandson of U.S. Presidents, and attended Harvard College. Adams, however, discusses his time at Harvard with contempt and rancor for the most part. Adams, in his Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography "The Education of Henry Adams" said that Harvard "taught little, and that little ill, but it left the mind open, free from bias, ignorant of facts, but docile" (Adams 32). Adams and his classmates in the Class of 1958 did not take school seriously and Harvard was simply a social collective, populated by students, who only attended the school because others they knew did as well. Adams wrote that if "parents went on, generation after generation, sending their children to Harvard College for the sake of its social advantages, they perpetuated an inferior social type" (Adams 39). In Adams' opinion, "the entire work of the four years could have been easily put into the work of any four months in after life" (Adams 36).
Adams did develop the notion that his education would not end with graduation from Harvard, but it required graduate courses from the School of Life to complete it. Adams, the great-grandson and grandson of two U.S. Presidents, keenly understood that his lineage and privilege did not give him everything. True and lasting education is a combination of formal and informal elements, which is the only way to deal with an evolving society. That realization is the hallmark of a true intellectual. Adams knew he could have contempt for the conventions of his formal...
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