Word: alcott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Genius. Years later, when married, a father and famous as the author of The Scarlet Letter, he was still a recluse at heart. Young William Dean Howells went to call on him in Concord, found him "visibly shy to the point of discomfort." His Concord neighbor Bronson Alcott noted in his journal: "I get glimpses of Hawthorne as I walk up the sledpaths, he dodging about amongst the trees on his hilltop as if he feared his neighbor's eyes would catch him as he walked. A coy genius. . . . Nobody gets a chance to speak with him unless...
...obsolescent" verbiage: "Diplomacy would lose much of its spell once stripped of the belle tournure of its nomenclature." Corps Diplomatique itself is no slouch at belle tournure. With scholarly assists from Longfellow, Goethe, Lord Cecil, Dr. Johnson, Sir Henry Wotton,* Rousseau, Burke, Schiller, Lenin, Lord Castlereagh and Bronson Alcott, it delivers itself of such pearls as: "The bores and the bored whom Byron-called the 'two mighty tribes of society,' are still around and about. But diplomats, who are the best society, now follow Ruskin's advice and keep out of it." The Washington Times-Herald says...
Odell Shepard is an idealist, a writer, a lover of Connecticut, a wanderer and a teacher. So was Bronson Alcott, hero of Shepard's Pulitzer Prize biography (Pedlar's Progress). Alcott was a failure at almost everything he tried; Shepard has been a success...
...year presidency of imaginative Hamilton Holt, Rollins' midway has blossomed with such sprightly sideshows as a course in Evil, a professorship of hunting & fishing, a tree-lined "Walk of Fame" paved with stones from the homes and haunts of the world's great, from Louisa M. Alcott to Christopher Columbus. Also, for all its eccentricities, it has been a sprightly school, with a lively interest...
...weak-eyed, skinny mollycoddle and prig, already "pathetically conscious of being a misfit." He would jeer at anyone who had a squint or a clubfoot; homely girls made him burst into hysterical laughter. He thrilled with the hope of being kidnapped. Charles Dickens and Louisa M. Alcott were his idols. To confidants he showed a collection of photographs of Broadway celebrities, remarking: "That's what I'm going to be ... a dramatic critic." He kept a diary, whose cryptic opening words were "Shakespeare. Circumcision...