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...Frank Lloyd Wright's new buildings was recognized in an issue of THE ARCHITECTURAL FORUM which broke all precedents for that magazine. Its main body of 102 pages, Lid out and written by Architect Wright, was an album of his work, an anthology of sturdy quotations from Thoreau and Whitman, and a compendium of Weight's building philosophy...
...builder. Gracious, mischievous and immaculate at 68, Frank Lloyd Wright has little of the patriarch about him except his fine white hair. His obvious and arrogant courage has the abstract indestructibility of a triangle. He thinks of himself as in the "centre line" of Usonian independence that runs through Thoreau and Whitman. Whether or not that line is still central in U. S. culture, there can be little doubt that Frank Lloyd Wright is their worthy peer...
...Thoreau-like Captain Doughty. Quietly, competently written, the result is a sea story consisting of gently anarchistic philosophizing, exact descriptions, a travelog plot, the flavor but not the vitality of Tomlinson's best books, Gallions Reach and The Sea and the Jungle...
...maidens dancing the traditional sklav-sklav and reminding me of my Love. Later to the attic, whisked my tails from under the mattress, and off to the Somerset to meet Sadie Saltenglotz. These Boston debs! Later wandered in the moonlight by the banks of the Charles. Oh Emerson! Oh Thoreau! Teary parting with my Love; then briskly home to browse drowsily in my Aldine Gongora and nibble sleepily at my Liederkranz...
...single individual. It is conceivable that a dictator awakening one morning with a bellyache might throw his country into a war which might never have happened if he had taken a cathartic the night before." As a lad, Webb Miller was inordinately impressed with the works of Henry David Thoreau, found in that gentle naturalist's Walden a blueprint for human peace & happiness. As a man, though he still carries a tattered copy of Walden wherever he goes, Webb Miller rounds off his memoirs by sombrely remarking that "the philosophy of Thoreau ... is impractical as a rule of life...