Word: thoreau
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...galley proofs of the current works of Dickens, Thackeray, Trollope and other English greats, and ran them as serials. Overnight, Harper's became a success. Literary Americans became such fans of the magazine, not only for its fiction but for its factual articles on U.S. life, that Thoreau peevishly asked: "Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers to select our reading...
This shrewd journalist and Pulitzer Prizewinning biographer (Woodrow Wilson) in his peasant disguise is quoted more often than Lincoln. Santayana and Oliver Wendell Holmes, and just about as often as Franklin and Thoreau. Not many U.S. workers would go along with Grayson-Baker's ideas of the simple life: "Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and homemade bread-there...
...Southwest Historian J. Frank Dobie (Coronado's Children, The Voice of the Coyote) picked up Ben Lilly's trail back in 1928, when he met the 20th Century Davy Crockett in El Paso, read two chapters of his never-completed autobiography and listened to such Thoreau-like observations as "Property is a handicap to man." After Ben died in 1936. at 79, Dobie started back-trailing on his life in an effort to flush the truth out of the thicket of legend which had grown up around his name. The result is a briery, humor-speckled portrait...
...Mountains is laced with a barky hillman's wit and mellowed with one man's humility before mountain grandeur. Mr. Justice Douglas emerges from his chambers as a man who can take the measure of his mountains and write of them with a Thoreau-like freshness...
Benjamin Rowland, professor of Fine Arts, said that realism was one of the important feature of American art today. He compared the attempts of the sensationalists to a remark of Thoreau's: "Oh, for a sentence no intelligence can understand...