Word: devoto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cambridge's only piece of real wilderness may be saved from intruding bulldozers if the efforts of Harvard students Mark DeVoto '61 and Richard Simmers '59 and of the Cambridge Civic Association are successful...
Perhaps the most interesting case study is that of Mormon culture, an area of small population, but one which has producer an amazing number of good writers. Ezra Pound, Vardis Fisher, Maureen Whipple. Wallace Stegner, Bernard DeVoto (the last two having both attended Harvard, a long, long, ways in all respects from Mormon Country). Like the South, Mormon Country has a very colorful history, established mode of life, and a much more definite set of values than even the South. Also like the South, and Ireland, and Russia, this has been a region in direct conflict with a larger culture...
...either to reject, accept, or modify his previous values. If one rejects, there is a need to justify one's actions, often in writing. If one accepts the values of the original society, there is still a need to justify, having been exposed to conflicting values. Pound, Fisher, and DeVoto rejected Mormon values. In Fisher and DeVoto can clearly be seen a marked concern for saying something (and justifying), rather than that with form and style. Whipple and Stegner, in large part, accepted Mormon culture but felt that they need to explain why they did so. There are a host...
...land reflects a peculiarly American genius, one that lies deep in the traditional pioneering instincts of the nation. No other country has come close to the U.S. in creating the mechanized giants of road building. "Road building," said one contractor, "is really the American art." Said the late Bernard DeVoto: "A highway is a true index of our culture. The machinery that builds it embodies developments in technology, invention, industrial progress, education, finance and so many other things that our whole cultural heritage has gone into producing...
...reprinted in Cardinal paper-back edition. His objectivity is also shown in what is probably his most famous work--Children of God: An American Epic, a novel of almost a thousand pages which won the 1939 Harper's prize. Several years before the publication of Children of God, Bernard DeVoto had called the story of the Mormon migration the great American novel that will never be written. In his review of Fisher's novel, he acknowledged that the job had been successfully completed...