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...citizens assembled before the Capitol on that bleak and windswept Inauguration Day of 1933, and to millions more clustered around their radios, Roosevelt offered not a series of remedies but a new spirit of assurance. It was this spirit that inspired him to seize a phrase from Henry David Thoreau ("Nothing is so much to be feared as fear") for his famous declaration that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." There had been three years of Government dithering since the Crash, and a new course was to be set. Said Roosevelt: "This nation asks for action...
...numbing AM-FM parade of screaming newsbreaks, "easy listening" and top-ten programming is being replaced with Chaucer and Cheever, Tennyson and Updike. Many freeway jockeys, as well as joggers, cooks, hobbyists and workers whose hands and eyes are otherwise engaged, are trying the best nonprescription tranquilizer available: Thoreau's Walden...
...Some circumstantial evidence is very strong," said Thoreau, "as when you find a trout in the milk." In Who Killed Karen Silkwood? the odor of rotten fish is overpowering. Outside Oklahoma City, on a cold November evening in 1974, Silkwood drove along Highway 74 to meet a New York Times reporter. Her mission: to present evidence of safety violations at a Kerr-McGee nuclear processing plant. She never arrived. Her car swerved on the dry, straight road and plowed into a culvert. Almost immediately, according to Howard Kohn, company, state and federal officials began frenzied work, not to find...
...When the photograph was young, in the 1840s and '50s, most cultivated Americans were apt to imagine the interior of their continent as a vast wilderness, formless, raw and antipathetic to man. By the 1860s and '70s, this had changed. Thanks to the ideas of men like Thoreau and Emerson, combined with the pervasive religious ideology of the American middle class, untamed landscape was now seen as beautiful and instructive in itself: the sublime fingerprint of God. This gave a moral excitement to natural curiosity; and both were reflected not only in painting (as in the work...
...Henry David Thoreau...