Word: whittier
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Backs: Gus Bigwood, Ed Buckley, Dave Goldthwatte, Mel Gordon, Ray Guild, Cliff Helman, Caleb Loring, Bill Lyle, Ted Lyman, George O'Sullivan, Guy Meli, George MacClellan, Greely Summers, Ephraim Takvorian, Rod Townsend, Henry Vander , Morton Waldstein, Ross Whittier, Nat Young...
...England: Indian Summer is thronged with other New Englanders. There was the aging Whittier at his Amesbury cottage with the harebells in the garden room. "Sometimes, recalling his hairbreadth escapes in the anti-slavery days . . . the old man would leap from his seat. . . ." There was Julia Ward Howe. In the electric days of 1861, she had written The Battle Hymn of the Republic in one half-hour of genius that never returned again. Now she "rumble-tumbled" through the Newport season, communing with Kant and Spinoza, organizing her "picnics with a purpose"-"an hour or two of botany...
...these people moved through landscapes that Critic Brooks sees empathically as if through their eyes. "The wild flowers set the note of Whittier's country. . . . The pastoral stretches along the rivers, with their long lines of barns and sheds, blossomed with shadbush, the 'shad-blow,' for April in these valleys was the time of shadding, and the fish gave its name to flower and bird...
...took a lofty view of the works of Charles Dickens ("the greatest of superficial novelists"), sneered at Henry Kingsley ("the author leaps astride of a half-broken fancy . . . and trusts to Providence for the rest. . . ."), was appalled by Walt Whitman ("You talk entirely too much about your self."). Longfellow, Whittier, James Rus sell Lowell contributed to The Nation...
...frozen radiators, sniffles, skids, tumbles-a week of frustration when auto-supply houses ran out of tire chains, when hot-water heaters blew up, trains were late, mails delayed, and cases of influenza (10,000 in North Louisiana) closed schools that few children could reach. Snowbound New Englanders of Whittier's day might be undisturbed at seeing No cloud above, no earth below A universe of sky and snow...