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Philately may seem a gentle avocation, but Postmaster General Larry O'Brien knows better. After he approved a 5? stamp to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Henry David Thoreau's birth, furious collectors complained that the Post Office Department was making the Walden Ponderer look like a thug, a Communist, a hippie or "a beatnik suffering from withdrawal symptoms." One fan even threatened civil disobedience. "If you bring a blown-up poster of this hideous thing into Concord, Mass.," he wrote, "you'd better send along a contingent of the National Guard." Fortunately...
...English troubadourian vision, the Land of Cockaigne was inhabited by precooked "larks well-trained and very couth who cometh down to man his mouth." The larks were eaten by hooded monks, who prayed through psychedelic church windows that "turn themselves to crystal bright." A new U.S. postage stamp of Thoreau, designed by Painter Leonard Baskin, was under fire last week on the ground that it makes bearded, long-haired Henry David look like a hippie...
...Wants. The hippie philosophy also borrows heavily from Henry David Thoreau,* particularly in the West Coast rural communes, where denizens try to live the Waldenesque good life on the bare essentials-a diet of turnips and brown rice, fish and bean curd -thus refuting the consumerism of "complicating wants" essential to the U.S. economy. Historically, the hippies go all the way back to the days of Diogenes and the Cynics (curiously, no rock combo has yet taken the name), who were also bearded, dirty and unimpressed with conventional logic...
...Second Sonata is an amazing piece of music. Subtitled "Concord, Mass., 1840-1860," its four movements are labelled, respectively, "Emerson," "Hawthrone." "The Alcotts," and "Thoreau." In "Hawthorne" Ives unleashes all his powers of satire as he incorporates Debussy-like ragtime, fragments of Protestant hymns, and purposely misharmonized American bombast -- "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean," for example--into an acid brew that recalls the "This Scherzo Is a Joke" movement of the Piano Trio. Mendelssohn and the Beethoven Fifth make their appearance in "The Alcotts," a merciless parody of all the cliches of nineteenth-century musical sentimentality. Of the four...
...applied to various organizations that do not necessarily accept it. While most New Leftists still embrace S.N.C.C. and CORE, the embrace is one-sided; the leaders of those organizations, with their new drive for black power, have frozen whites out. Most New Leftists claim as their spiritual ancestors Thoreau, Emerson and Whitman rather than Marx or Lenin. Thus they are distinct from the various Communist and socialist groups descended from the old, pre-World War II left, though they share many of their aims and indiscriminately welcome their presence in any sit-in, teach-in or bein. Chief among these...