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Athletic Harvard men did calisthentics--Yogi type-- on the banks of the Charles. Tennis courts were crowded with the exhuberantly healthy. A few traipsed off to the rock-strewn shores of Walden Pond or the flesh-strewn beaches of Revere...
Jean Giono has been called the French Thoreau. Giono's dusty Provençal towns and Alpine foothills are a long way from Walden Pond, but he writes with a Thoreau-like conviction that the only good life is the "natural" (non-city) life. And like Thoreau, who once spent a night in jail for refusing to pay his poll tax, Giono went to jail rather than obey his government's mobilization order in September...
...mass of men," wrote Thoreau from the fir-scented tranquillity of Walden Pond, "lead lives of quiet desperation." In periods of accelerated history, the organic rot of Rome, the collapse of the Middle Ages, the gigantic life & death struggles of 20th-century civilization, this desperation takes on a new intensity. Its symbol in our time is the emigre, the political fugitive...
...Comdr. Morison's adventures was unique in that it didn't quite happen. On the staff of Rear Admiral Walden D. Ainsworth aboard the U.S.S. Honolulu, he was on hand for the initial bombardment of Guam. "By that period of the war our fire support ships steamed so close to the coast that a native of Guam on the Honolulu could see his house, and proposed that he and I go ashore in a rubber boat as a two-man task force to give his friends the good word. Fortunately this plan did not appeal to Admiral Ainsworth...
...ruddy, gray-haired county doctor, A. R. Walden, thought that a hero should come home to something better. He wrote a letter, mailed it with $100 to the Spartanburg Herald-Journal...