Word: thoreau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...topical. Mencken, whatever the college boys may have thought a quarter-century ago, was no great thinker; he was a man of stout prejudices, with a gift and vocabulary for iconoclastic expression even richer than Mark Twain's. In the word's true sense he was, like Thoreau, a radical. But he was also a political conservative, to the dismay of the assorted pinks and reds who once thrilled to his lambastings of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, but were forced to turn on him when he struck out at the New Deal, socialism and communism...
...correct a misstatement made in Monday's CRIMSON? I don't know where your reporter got the notion that I said that Emerson and Thoreau were "subjects of persecution when they attempted to speak out 'for peace and liberty.'" I made no such remark. My speech at the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace dwelt on the aspects of the American tradition most valuable for the world today and cited specifically Emerson's internationalism, Thoreau's determination to stand on principle in resistance to what he deemed an imperialistic war against Mexico, and Melville's and Whitman's conception...
...Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, delivered one of the main talks at the panel on "Writing and Publishing." He cited Thoreau and Emerson as subjects of persecution when they attempted to speak out "for peace and liberty" and said that present-day writers should emulate them...
...literary criticism, the ambitious new "American Men of Letters" series began a restudy of the country's major writers with Joseph Wood Krutch's well-balanced Henry David Thoreau and Emery Neff's Edwin Arlington Robinson. In Nathaniel Hawthorne: the American Years, Robert Cantwell gave an unorthodox interpretation and filled in the background of Hawthorne's time with a rich mass of detail. Randall Stewart's Hawthorne was a more conventional biography...
...class of 1952 has arrived in time to witness the second flowering of New England. Thoreau and Emerson never shone so brightly as Sain and Spahn. And Billy Southworth is undoubtedly the greatest New Englander since Calvin Coolidge...