Walden pondered

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In “Walden,” Henry David Thoreau helped shape the way we think about nature and our place in the world. An American Icons segment examines why many readers think that Thoreau was a genius while others think he’s a hypocrite. A second American Icons segment remembers Leonard Bernstein’s “Young People’s Concerts” with the New York Philharmonic, which not only captured the genius and wit of the conductor but also showed the power of the then-young medium of television. And 40 years ago, Gloria Gaynor’s label released “I Will Survive” as a B-side, but it managed to become a hit — and an anthem.

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0:00.0	from PRX
0:03.4	This is Studio 360.
0:09.8	I'm Curtis, and I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
0:12.8	This first level of garden.
0:14.2	This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable garden.
0:16.0	I like to have the roasted chicken base.
0:17.7	Very well done.
0:18.9	Editing is all about timing.
0:20.6	I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject.
0:23.2	You must get sick of your own voice, right?
0:25.5	Studio 360.
0:27.6	It's good. Anderson.
0:31.9	If you think about Henry David Thoreau, what comes to mind?
0:35.9	Our life is frittered away by detail.
0:39.4	Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity.
0:42.9	I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand.
0:47.9	Instead of a million, count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail.
0:52.8	The young guy who went to live in a cabin, he built in the woods to get away from the rat race.
0:57.7	The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
1:02.1	The writer whose aphorisms almost seem designed for the bumper stickers and coffee mugs of people who listen to public radio.
1:09.5	If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
1:12.4	perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
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