Word: thoreau
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...more Americans than ever were braving blisters, bites and backaches to hear the babble of clear streams and have night skies as a ceiling-to savor, in Thoreau's phrase, "life near the bone where it is sweetest." And despite all the rush and crowding, those with stamina and imagination were still not too late to find adventure in tranquil places...
...people at Harvard--and the theory is true. Harvard is a center of scholarship and thinking. Another theory stresses how Harvard cuts students adrift from their old ways of thinking, until if they still can't choose where to live and what to live for, they at least share Thoreau's suspicion that resignation to a predetermined role would just mean confirmed desperation...
...like many others on the Cape: have traded their economic security (both were successful teachers before coming to the cape) in exchange for an unhurried, solitary and peaceful existence. On the weekends they walk the beaches, or visit the ponds in Wellfleet that Thoreau made famous. And they enjoy driving to Race Point beach in Provincetown--the tip of the Cape--and photographing the sunsets...
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...