Word: walden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WALDEN P. PRATT...
...Philanthropist. In Walden, N.Y., when it was discovered that kindly, popular Town Clerk (since '28) Richard E. Baird, 65, had for years been reducing people's water bills without their knowing it (with a total revenue loss of $16,151), that not a cent went into his own pocket and that his beneficiaries were rich and poor, friend and foe, even people he didn't know, his only comment was: "I really don't know...
...Time," wrote contemplative Henry David Thoreau (1817-62), "is but the stream I go a-fishing in." Recluse Thoreau (Walden, 1854), who lived for 26 months in a spare, do-it-yourself hut (cost: $28.12) in the serene wilderness of Massachusetts' Walden Pond, might have locked his creaky door had he caught a glimpse of the U.S. last week. It was a remarkable sight. In the heat of this midsummer, the nation looked upon time not as a quiet stream but as a bubbling spring from which it might satisfy an endless thirst for motion...
Nevertheless, he scraped together the money to fetch the moribund Moricand from his rats' castle in Switzerland to the solitude of Miller's own Walden Pond (the Pacific Ocean). Moricand saluted Miller, systematically went about the business of making himself master in Miller's house. He became Mrs. Miller's ally in her daily quarrels with Miller. He demanded gauloises bleues cigarettes, special tooth powder of pumice, writing paper of a special shape. He refused to be pacified by the Pacific, and he plugged his air less room so that no fresh air could leak...
...rigors of promoting performances, c) their music sounds forbiddingly difficult, and is twice as difficult to play. A member of this elite in good standing is Manhattan's Elliott Cook Carter,* who, at 47, is just coming into his own: a recording of his String Quartet by the Walden Quartet is being released (by Columbia) in June; another of a suite from the music for his ballet The Minotaur, played by Howard Hanson and the Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra, has just been released (by Mercury); and the Louisville Orchestra this week recorded his imposing new Variations for Orchestra...