Word: thoreau
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Over the years, Duvivier's golden retriever Thoreau has won almost as many fans...
...opinion towards television is that it's beenas crucial a part of my environment as trees werea part of Thoreau's environment. I don't thinktelevision is wonderful. I don't think it's amenace to society. I just think it's been acritical part of my world, and it would beintellectually dishonest of me not to allow itsinfluence into my work. And I think the thing,more than anything, that interests me, in terms oftelevision, is the formal grammar of television,its speed, the kinetic way that televisionbombards us with energy, the remarkable ability oftelevision to blast you with...
...grass was as green as I had imagined, the trees abundant and elegantly placed in the Yard. And to my delight, it was the very same field of grass in which Emerson and Thoreau had slept and studied...
...caveat about books in intellectual Cambridge: by the time most students graduate from Harvard, they have accumulated towering piles of paperbacks, many of which they have never even opened. A cheap copy of Thoreau on overstock or the latest book on pop psychology is always a tempting purchase...
...shake that scholarly feeling? That urgeto intellectualize? Don't worry; this isHah-vahd! Of course there's a spot nearbyfor brainy water enthusiasts. As a matter of fact,the place was the hangout of a famous Harvardgrad, Henry David Thoreau...