Word: thoreau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Raise the Umbrella. Around 1830, the rise of Jacksonian democracy created a new pride in the rural American scene, and artists began flocking outdoors to record it. A group of writers backed up and inspired the painters' nature worship: James Fenimore Cooper, Emerson, Thoreau, John Greenleaf Whittier and William Cullen Bryant ("Go forth, under the open sky, and list to Nature's teachings"). Painter Thomas Cole listened closely to the exhortations of his friend Bryant, trudged up the Hudson River with easel and umbrella to paint the wild Catskills, and founded the so-called Hudson River school...
...more copies to be sent overseas. The type of objection Author Davie was able to uncover: 1) a photograph entitled "A little red schoolhouse, built 1750," which the subcommittee insisted would give the Russians the idea that one-room schoolhouses dominate the U.S. in 1955; 2) a quotation from Thoreau which, the subcommittee thought, would give Europeans the idea that Americans "lead lives of quiet desperation," and 3) a photograph of a Vermont schoolteacher, because a friend of one committeeman had seen a Russian book with a better-looking teacher. Said Author Davie: "I didn't think...
...particularly to take long walks along its country roads. He is an inveterate walker and at Amherst he often led a hiking group through the surrounding woods, spicing the ramblings with peripatetic philosophy. Early this summer he did some concentrated meandering on Cape Cod, "way down, you know, where Thoreau walked...
Citation: "Tolerant observer of human foibles, implacable foe of all forms of tyranny, lover of nature and friend of furred and feathered life, a modern Thoreau at home in both Brooklins...
...partakes of all that is finest in American literature--the sense of nature and of revelation of Emerson and Thoreau, the sharp and pessimistic but compassionate wit of Twain, Lardner, and Marquis, the enthusiasm of Whitman, the highly developed awareness of fantasy and symbolism of Melville, James, and Faulkner, the sense of social forces of Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, and Steinbeck, and the linguistic facility of Thurber and Perelman. Add to this the satiric ability of George Orwell...