Word: ponds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...favorite gathering place for the young people is the knoll overlooking the 16th hole. The 16th is a 190-yard par three with a long pond as its fairway. Middle-aged and elderly people are among the crowd, but no one seems to notice. "It is almost as if they are not there," a high school girl said...
Henry David Thoreau went into the woods to confront what he grandly called "the essential facts of life." Spartan-like, he observed flowers blooming, raindrops falling, seasons changing. Of course, the essential facts of Thoreau's life included Emerson's loan of the cabin site at Walden Pond and such genteel activities as frequent walks into Concord for civilized conversation and home cooking. H.D.T. had it both ways, which is more than can be said for the nature he wrote about. The shadow of the surveyor and his Damoclean plumb bob had already fallen across the land...
...million "joint venture" of the Cambridge Electric Light Company and the Boston Edison Company would establish a bulk energy receiving station on the former location of the Fresh Pond drive-in theater on Alewife Brook Parkway...
FRIDAY: Naturalists. First part of a series of essays on famous American naturalists examines the life and writings of Henry David Thoreau. Filmed around Walden Pond in Concord. CH. 2. 9 p.m. Color...
...washes the plain concrete surface of the cycloids, gently blending warmer reflections from a white oak floor. Curve answers to curve, vault to channel. There is no glare on the pictures. Yet as the sun moves, the light, and by implication the space, changes subtly, like reflections in a pond...