Word: transcendentalist
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Schlesinger writes that he grew bored by his junior year, only drawn out of his doldrums by his History and Literature thesis on the New England Transcendentalist Orestes A. Brownson...
Ives considered himself a transcendentalist and intended the contrast of the soothing ephemeral strings with the sharp discordant winds to create what Thoreau called “a vibration of the universal lyre.” It was an interesting idea, but at least in this performance, it did not seem that Ives vision was realized...
Pappaw taught me the difference between education and wisdom. Schooled only through ninth-grade, he never read Thoreau, but I think he was a transcendentalist at heart. He was always happiest outside. He pointed out the forest fingerprints of deer or rabbits even though, in his equanimity, his eyes seemed still. He found meaning in the pace of nature, particularly in the rural tension between civilization and the unsullied beyond...
DEAN GRODZINS. He may not have a namesake building in Harvard Yard, but Unitarian minister Theodore Parker was almost as influential as Ralph Waldo Emerson in shaping the Transcendentalist movement. Grodzins, winner of the Society of American Historians’ Allan Nevins Prize, will engage in a discussion of his recent Parker biography “American Heretic: Theodore Parker and Transcendentalism.” Friday, March 14 at 3 p.m. Free. Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue...
...matrix in which most of the impulses of American abstract art, except for its weaker strand of purist geometry, unfolded. In no other country except England and Australia was the relation between abstraction and landscape so strong, but in America it had a special persistence because of its Transcendentalist roots and overtones of mysticism...