Word: thoreau
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...Venus. The early hours spent with radio, TV and films are the foundation of adult imagination. Yet when children grow up, they suffer some sad amnesia of taste. How else could former kids provide television programs designed to do nothing with time but kill itas if, in Thoreau's phrase, it were possible to kill time without injuring eternity? From the moment it was old enough to earn money, U.S. television has been squandering the country's greatest natural resource: the young audience...
...speaking seriously, and for himself. Like Santayana, he knows in his Latin bones something the natives don't-that American Puritanism is an anti-passion so powerful as to disorder the reason it purports to support. Beneath their cool New England exteriors, Alonso hints, Emerson and Thoreau-and Bronson-were as gloriously crazy as his own Don Quixote. He knows how consciences can cramp under strain, how idealism can gnarl the mind. He is not joking when he compares the 19th century Utopian experiment at Brook Farm with a Massachusetts mental hospital of today...
...Design Research, glowing brightly as snow falls on a near deserted Brattle Street. "Design Research," she writes, "makes your heart happy with all its bright colors." But once you start seeing this place through its buildings, there's simply no stopping. For that's the building where Thoreau lived, and that's the building they built because the Titanic sank, and that's the one the kids occupy every year. And in that theatre they show Bogie flicks and in there you can get those gigantic sundaes...
...Reich, the hope of the present and the wave of the future is Consciousness III. There were a few early IIIs before the mid-1960s: among them Thoreau, James Joyce, Wallace Stevens, J.D. Salinger. But now there are thousands, says Reich, eager to transform American society by a new, generous life-style and a direct commitment to simplicity, honesty and gentle comradeship. The revolution will be peaceable too, for anyone who believes in power and violence, says Reich, is not yet up to Consciousness III. Instead, Reich sees the young simply infiltrating and then inheriting the future. "The new consciousness...
...Mexico ranch with two servants and a pair of eleven-year-old chow dogs for company ("They bite very well; I've seen quite a few visitors I didn't want go off with blood sloshing out of their shoes")-a paradigm of the frontier experience which Thoreau tried with less success to live at Walden...