Word: thoreau
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...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...
Discussions about energy policy, even among friends, can quickly become emotionally charged since the issue involves fundamental values. Solar advocates believe in walking to work, eating organically grown foods, and living simply, like Thoreau. Proponents of nuclear energy believe in General Electric, General Motors, and General Foods...
...they will never realize that gay people's genuine friendship can be as supportive as that of straights. And we wish to offer them our deepest sympathy, for none of them will ever have the opportunity to quote to another man the words of Harvard's own Henry David Thoreau: "If I but love that virtue which he is, though it be scented in the morning air, still shall we be truest acquaintances, nor mortals know a sympathy more rare." Rebecca H. Rhodes '92 Jessie K. Minier...
...donation features contracts between the publisher and several of its most famous clients, including Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry James...
...reference is apt. Like Thoreau, Iyer combines an acute sense of place with a mordant irony. The revealing detail is his specialty: he recalls "an old monk brush, brush, brushing a pathway clean . . . a sitting Buddha imparting a peace so strong it felt like wisdom . . . Yet one could never forget the world entirely. Floating up from below came the sound, plangent and forlorn, of a garbage collector's truck playing its melancholy song...