Word: himly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Waldstein at blocking back has made his way through his prodigious kicking ability. In the scrimmage with the varsity he was holding his own with Spreyer and Macdonald, but it may be that hard-working Ross Whittier will press him for his position. Whittier is a fighter and strong on...
Fisher, the most heralded of all the Yardlings, has done no more than a competent job at tackle, a position which he seems assured of by the lack of any formidable competition. He is big and has a football background which will probably stand him in good stead as the...
Henry Seidel Canby's Thoreau, dressiest biography of him so far, is timely rather than definitive. Canby unearths scant new material, finds no satisfactory answers to such speculations as: Was Henry in love with Emerson's wife? Was it Margaret Fuller, the Transcendentalist, to whom he sent his...
Transcendentalists complained that he was too practical ("Strictly speaking," said Henry, "morality is not healthy"). Religious folk called him an infidel ("One world at a time," said Thoreau when a friend came to his death bed to talk about the next world). "Practical men" called him a dreamer and escapist...
Modern readers gauge Thoreau's genius by the qualities his contemporaries disliked. His eccentricities, prickliness, perversities, were in fact the Yankee thorns that protected him against the embrace of the Transcendentalists, the fashionable gentilities of the Lowells and Longfellows, the transient Utopianisms of the Alcotts, the dated rhetoric of...