Word: life
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through the selection of insignia, procedure, songs, and topics for discussion, the emphasis of the Club meetings is on those things that are abiding, rather than on forces and events more lurid than lasting. The German Club seeks to recreate in America the spirit and fellowship of German student life before...
...Club's activities, men are brought into personal, rather than purely academic contact with the intellectual and spiritual life of a people. It is hoped that such study and such experience will render members more able to form judgments for their times and their lives...
What Thoreau really meant by his life was even less clear to succeeding generations, began to clarify at last under the triumph of industrialism, the rise of dictatorships. In the 1930s this "friend of woodchucks and enemy of the State emerges as the most read and most readable U. S. writer of his time...
Thoreau's modern reputation is a testament to his Yankee stubbornness in sticking to his realistic problem. "I wanted," said Thoreau, "to drive life into a corner and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it ... of if it were sublime, to know it by experience. ... If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our throats and feel cold in the extremities; if we are alive, let us go about our business...
...accentuated and blossom forth in their true colors to capture the imagination of the curious person. It is possible for one to find, in these many types of art now on exhibit, that diversity of kind and opposition of approach which, in the final analysis, truly represents actual life...