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...remaining stoires, two are especially impressive, Jack Ludwig's "Thoreau in California" and Arthur Miller's "I Don't Need You Any More." Ludwig's effort falls a little short because of the difficulty of his endeavor. Consistently amusing without being flip or irrelevant, he introduces an extremely improbable character who worships and lives by the words of an extremely Improbable pair of writers, Thoreau and Wilhelm Reich. But to make music of proper names requires a talent approximating Joyce's, and while Ludwig has done well enough indeed, the strictures of conventional sentence give much of his prose...
...scholarly critic who, as founder and editor (1924-36) of the Saturday Review of Literature and chief judge (1926-58) of the Book-of-the-Month Club, was literary arbiter for millions of American readers, highbrow and middlebrow alike; of cancer; in Ossining, N.Y. Biographer of Whitman and Thoreau, author or editor of nearly three dozen other books, Canby was a reliable, middle-of-the-road literary leader whose job, as he saw it, was to "pass on sound values to the reading public...
...Jainism. But in perfecting the strategy that peacefully defeated Britain in India, Gandhi drew heavily on the New Testament, which awakened him to "the Tightness and value of passive resistance." Gandhi's conviction was further bolstered by Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God Is Within You and Thoreau's famed essay Civil Disobedience, both written by men who made celebrated attempts to carry out nonviolence. What emerged in Gandhi was a hard-boiled idea that sacrificing oneself is ultimately more effective than sacrificing others...
...power to shock may be taken as a yardstick of fiction, John Updike, 28, has written one of the year's most important novels. Like last year's Poorhouse Fair, his new book is bitterly anchored in Thoreau's belief that most men lead lives of quiet desperation, but in this story, the restraining dam breaks to let loose such relentless despair as is seldom found in U.S. writing...
Making the point that while the U.S.S.R. uses its satellites for propaganda, the U.S. should put its space efforts to practical purposes. Pierce recalled a passage from Thoreau's Walden: "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." Added Pierce: "Perhaps we hear a different drummer...