Word: thoreau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...specialist in American literary history, he has written Emerson and Thoreau: Transcendentalists in Conflict and The Romance of America: Studies in Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville and James...
Rutgers English Professor Frederick T. McGill has given the pedagogical lie to hippiedom's worshipful identification with 19th century Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau was no "true hippie," said the prof, because his rejection of society was really a matter of "giving up what he desired least in order to leave time and a little money for the essentials." And these essentials, McGill added, did not include blowing his cerebrum. "Thoreau said morning air was his chief intoxicant," lectured McGill. "He undoubtedly would have rejected artificial stimulants and the use of mind-expanding drugs...
Last week, acting as producer, director, researcher, writer and narrator, Saarinen took her NBC camera team to Concord, Mass., to make a Today-show film on the town's 19th century authors. After poring over encyclopaedias, biographies and the writings of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne and Louisa May Alcott, she spent one afternoon tramping around the countryside, across the graveyards and through the centuries-old houses. Then she retreated to her hotel room to write her script and fill the margins with meticulous directions for the cameraman...
...camera the next day, looking comely in a bright red Dior suit, she toured the town with all the aplomb of a grand lady at her leisure. Daniel Chester French's famous Minuteman statue, she mused, "is rather splendid, though full of youthful literalism." Thoreau, she observed, is "a hero of the hippies, a dedicated dropout who was turned on by nature." Deftly summing up Hawthorne's stories as "tales of the dire results of invading the privacy of someone's secret heart," she added tartly that Hawthorne once confessed that he found Thoreau " 'tedious, tiresome...
...Administration specify the exact spot on which Mexico had, in the words of Folk's war message, "shed American blood upon the American soil." Lincoln, like many other Americans, suspected that U.S. troops had provoked the incident inside Mexico. The war was particularly unpopular among U.S. intellectuals. Henry Thoreau spent a night in the Concord jail for refusing to pay his state poll tax. Next day, he returned to Walden Pond to write his famous essay on Civil Disobedience. Ralph Waldo Emerson warned that "the U.S. will conquer Mexico, but it will be as the man swallows the arsenic...