Word: walden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thoreau Society of Concord, Mass. began a campaign for $30,000 to buy a house in which Authur Henry Thoreau wrote his journals and prepared his famed Walden-a work which expressed his contempt for costly, conventional houses...
...library is by no means what the planners would have liked, because of financial and material shortages, but the seminar has managed to acquire enough copies of significant works to make a go of it. Familiar titles are among them; "Walden," "Moby Dick," "U.S. Foreign Policy," "The Rise of American Civilization," "Main Currents in American Thought," "The Frontier in American History," "Middletown," Economic Policy and Full Employment...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Topic: Thoreau's Walden. Speakers: University of Chicago Philosophy Professor T. V. Smith, Chicago Tribune Book Editor Fred Babcock and Lynn A. Williams Jr., president of the Great Books Foundation...
...wasn't a picnic at Walden Pond, though, but a tour of Cambridge and Boston bookstores. The 52 enrollees in a six-week intensive course in shorthand and typewriting begin taking dictation today from Mrs. Harold Quinlan of the Boston Catherine Gibbs secretarial school...
Perhaps subsequent meetings will inject ramifications and contradictions to justify your reporter, but he was not able to approach, what was undoubtedly the most powerful and provocative work on the program of the expert Walden String Quartet "untroubled," as Mr. Sessions would have it, "by preconceived notions...