Word: cabins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Regardless of what people are told, there will always be those who decide that Walden Pond is a good place for a picnic. These people, impressed by the sylvan mutterings of Thoreau, will meet many, many more just like themselves at the old cabin site, and will find pleasant, quiet picnicking a difficult task indeed...
Trouble began when pilots began to harness Leonard into the usual protective gadgetry: buoyancy gear, oxygen mask, parachute, etc. With such equipment bulging from his 205 lbs., he needed the help of five men to fold him into the tiny radarman's cabin behind the pilot. When they lowered the bullet-proof canopy, it banged against his helmet, pushed his face within six inches of the radar panel...
...well-recommended way to a Smith girl's heart is through her stomach. Rahar's Inn, served by popular "Murph," is the handiest, while Wiggins Old Tavern is nice, in a plush fashion. For beer, pizza, and "atmosphere," the girls like Joe's, but the mountain-top Log Cabin or the Sportsman's Club provide a full meal or dancing...
...which introduces to Anna and the audience a long procession of beguiling youngsters. Jo Mielziner's sets are gracefully evocative, Irene Sharaff's costumes steadily gorgeous. There is a delightful Jerome Robbins ballet-a daintily menacing Siamese version, all stylized and symbolic, of Uncle Tom's Cabin...
...Blight of Day. Bierce, who defined birth as "the first and direst of all disasters," was born in an Ohio log cabin in 1842, the tenth of 13 children. His godly parents never spared the birch rod, but young Ambrose was notably full of the devil nonetheless. Once, when a camp meeting was in full swing, he and a brother took an old white horse, wrapped it in straw, set that afire, and sent the blazing animal galloping into the midst of the hallelujah-shouting revivalists...