Word: thoreauvian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perelman's cosmopolitan imagination had a definite surreal twist to it. In "low dudgeon," he viewed the world's quirky moving parts as threats to his safety, sanity and solvency. Acres and Pains was a 1947 collection of mock-Thoreauvian japes inspired by the author's four dec ades of semirustication on 100 stony acres in Bucks County, Pa. His definition of a gentleman's farm: "An irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city...
...next civil disobedient to taunt the local establishment this week is Dr. Benjamin Spock, revolutionary anti-war activist and author of the equally revolutionary all-time bestselling "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care." Spock, who spent his Thoreauvian night in jail for counseling youths on how to avoid the draft, will also speak at Morse Auditorium, on Sunday Feb. 13 at 11 a.m. His topic, which sticks out like a sore thumb in these staid '70's, will be "The Need for Radical Political Action...
Cross-country skiers tend to play an exclusive claim this feeling of accomplishment, but the true downhiller scorns such solitary, Thoreauvian outings. You might as well walk. Cross-country enthusiasts, however, are better suited to fully enjoy the beauty of nature in the winter...
...authenticity of the canoe builder is also undeniable. Henri Armand Vaillancourt is a 25-year-old bachelor who lives in Greenville, N.H., and thinks and talks exclusively about canoes. Refreshingly un-Thoreauvian, he prefers Tang to spring water when eating his homemade beef jerky. Vaillancourt is one of the last men in North America to make canoes the way the Eastern forest Indians made them. He is not only the keeper of an art but also an endangered species of American. In his " own beautifully crafted work, McPhee | treats both man and boat with all the respect and admiration their...
Peckinpah, in his previous films, has emphasized something quite different: a Thoreauvian belief in a one-to-one accounting of man to man and to his territory. But love, and all personal relationships, are just as tragic as they are in Bergman--if in more idealized ways, and in ways which echo a deeper social disillusionment. Love comes at the purgative ending of The Wild Bunch, when gunslinger Pike Bishop tries to save Mexican rebel Angel from the torture of the Federales--only to be slaughtered in a suicidal attack both epic and glorious. It becomes muted, perhaps sadder...