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...once toiled in. "I swallowed the dust, the sweat and smoke of the foundry. My ears were split by the hiss of the steam, the clank of the chains, the roar of pug mills." Leaving to find a better job, Toffler happened on copies of Marx and Weber and Thoreau and U.S. News and World Report. His bibliography runs 30 pages, and lists 534 books. In his dedication he thanks his wife, without whose help, presumably, it would have taken him twice as long to read and synthesize them...
Medical verdicts on tank therapy range from harmless to beneficial. Some physicians say that a long, hot soak in an old-fashioned tub at home can be as salutary-and solitary. But who needs hot water for meditation? Said Henry David Thoreau, the master solitudinist: "A man thinking or working is always alone, le him be where he will...
...violent civil disobedience of Thoreau, Gandhi and King has a sacred aura in this book, and it is vin dicated by its political and spiritual triumphs. But when the affluent college students of the '60s seize the revelations of the civil rights movement, the drama and courage of the protest, the transcendent irreverence of the beat generation, Viorst sees pretension; there is validity to the rancor, but will anyone...
McKay's Bees has perhaps a roomful of such figures--Henry David Thoreau comments on the biology of Louis Agassiz. Agassiz terrorizes his students and commits indiscretions with his housemaid. John Brown and his gang of Missouri border ruffians wage war on free-staters in Kansas. Even President Pierce gives an audience or two, once weeping, once belligerent...
This sense of a miraculous, beneficent clarity, of vision ecstatically distributed between the near and the far, has permeated American nature writing from Henry David Thoreau to Carlos Castaneda. It is as central to Adams' photography as it is to O'Keeffe's painting, or further back to the landscapes of Yosemite and Yellowstone painted by Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran and their followers in the 19th century. An entire tradition of seeing is inherent in the word wilderness; it is essentially romantic. As Szarkowski has observed, "Adams' pictures are perhaps anachronisms. They are perhaps the last confident and deeply felt...