Word: thoreau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though it was no longer exactly the lonely countryside of Thoreau, most tourists, nonetheless, did not seem to mind either the fast hustle or the crowds. Those not prudent enough to reserve hotel rooms weeks in advance seemed content to sleep in their cars, turning on heaters periodically to ward off frost. Others considered it quaint fun to be matched up with locals who turned their homes into "foliage houses"-that is, they rented out their guest bedrooms for $5 to $10 per person. Even the traffic was bearable for true leaf watchers. Said Donna Carpenter, a former New Englander...
...remote upstate New York hamlet of Tivoli (pop. 800). It is embodied in Lawrence Gilbert Broad-moore, 23, who has successfully propelled himself, not forward, but backward, into a proper Victorian environment. Totally rejecting contemporary values, mores, language and technology, Broadmoore is a self-made relic, a Thoreau in retreat from time...
...independent ruggedness, from the New England Transcendentalists. He read them again and again, quoting them in letters and memos and then finally in a book of criticism called Essays Before a Sonata, a sort of preface to a four-movement piano sonata celebrating Emerson, Hawthorne, the Alcotts and Thoreau in turn. Ives particularly admired Emerson for his 'radicalism'--so radical, Ives wrote, that it "plunges to all roots at once," cutting the basis from more limited, specific criticism of the world even as it criticized the world as a whole. It was something like Ives's music, resolutely refusing...
...another part of the sonata's power is the ineffable sadness of its last movement, when the four-note theme comes in for the last time on a flute--Thoreau's flute, Ives explained. The flute's been silent for the first three movements, and the tune comes in slowly and quietly, without preparation or roots, out of the blue. The sonata ends without a resolution. It is as though the old hymns couldn't stand against the bombast of fate knocking on the door. It is as though Ives had admitted that his father's world was gone...
...University of Kentucky, declared, 'I would rather sit at the feet of the Lord than dwell in the house of the mighty.' He thereupon keeled over and died." At one low-tide sand bar this "Best" was challenged by a player who offered Henry David Thoreau's reply when his aunt asked if he had made his peace with God: "I was not aware that we had quarreled." Play-offs will be scheduled shortly...