Word: thoreau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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OSWALD SPENGLER called money "a form of thought." Tolstoy condemned it as "a new form of slavery." While Thoreau figured that "the more money, the less virtue," Schopenhauer argued that "money alone is absolutely good" and Samuel Johnson declared: "There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money." The New Testament holds that love of money is the root of all evil, but Mark Twain reversed that adage into "lack of money is the root of all evil." Socrates said: "Virtue does not come from money, but from virtue comes money." Gertrude...
...moved to television. "And we could do more than sports," says Woroner. "Much more! Wars! Hitler's Germany against the Roman Empire! Napoleon versus Alexander the Great! How about election campaigns? George Washington versus Franklin Roosevelt! Abraham Lincoln against George Wallace! And debates? Socrates takes on Karl Marx! Thoreau against Jean-Paul Sartre...
...Hell, half the world wants to be like Thoreau at Walden," Painter Franz Kline once remarked, "worrying about the noise of the traffic on the way to Boston. The other half use up their lives being part of that noise. I like the second half." He painted the noise, in hurtling compositions that were apt to bear the names of locomotives or place-names of his native Pennsylvania coal country. Together with his fellow abstract expressionists, he split the Manhattan art world of the early 1950s into two camps. The conservatives damned them because their work not only obliterated...
...love of soul music. They even had a similar hangup: Carol sleeps with a "security blanket," while Pat feels lost without her own well-worn pillow. "I'm messy," says Carol, "and so is she." Don Denzin and James Sherry found companionship in a mutual appreciation of Thoreau's Walden and a joint jam session-Don on clarinet, Jim on guitar. Carol Tucker and Lynn McElroy were delighted by the matching because, as Carol explains it, "we're built the same and are both outdoorsy." That already has led to tennis-playing fun on double dates...
...majority opinion that read like a precis of Thoreau's Walden, Judge Kenneth Keating mourned "the intrusion of the seemingly endless line of asphalt and concrete into the enclaves which many have sought as surcease from the hustle and bustle of modern-day life." Keating's decision was in line with a landmark 1946 ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court, involving a North Carolina farmer. He had sued the Government because the noise of military planes from a nearby airfield had reduced his chickens to a state of eggless nervous collapse...