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...wheels and a strong frame make bicycling a pleasant and popular sport in Cambridge. Once the city limits and the hazards of traffic are past, a trip of short endurance will take one to Concord and Lexington, to the birthplaces of the Revolution, and Thoreau's Pond...
Henry David Thoreau's Yankee mind ranged from poetry to lead pencils (he invented a better one). The editors of Britain's highbrow Architectural Review have now found a fresh distinction for him: give or take a few details, Thoreau did a startlingly good job of anticipating the modern house. With a layout of some recent U.S. designs, Architectural Review ran a snatch from Walden...
...perhaps all this was not as modern as the Architectural Review thought. To U.S. Thoreau fans, it all sounded a good deal like the cabin on Walden Pond, enlarged in furniture and company...
...enlists, only to be marooned on a tiny South Pacific island supply depot. There he types reams in a confessional diary, relating his failure as a human being to that of all the other middle-class Mr. Smiths who, in Thoreau's phrase, "lead lives of quiet desperation." He decides he has never been his own man. His values have come f.o.b. Detroit, New York, Hollywood. Instead of the surges of the heart, he has lived by the slogans of the hucksters. One night a confused sentry mistakes him for a Jap, sends him to meet the man-sized...
Secretary Joan Lewis after consulting ancient records, discovered that the site was first called "Conantum" by Henry David Thoreau in his diary...