Word: walden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WALDEN P. PRATT...
Calling all this "an invasion of my privacy," McDaniel offered a solution: "An asterisk beside my number in the phone book with a footnote explaining that I do not want to be bothered by commercial solicitations." Example: Thoreau Henry D 1 Walden Pond...
Bohemian Grove is a walled-in Walden for the world-weary well-to-do; and no one-but no one-gets inside the gate unless he is either a member of San Francisco's intensely exclusive Bohemian Club or a carefully selected guest, such as Barry. A persistent reporter who hoped to follow Goldwater into the woods was advised snappishly: "The only way you'll get in is disguised as Herbert Hoover." Also rigidly forbidden: television sets and women...
Mavis and Emil (Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman) traipse out to the country retreat of an old pal, a writer, Edward (played by Costigan); they hope to lure him back to Hollywood to dash off a screenplay of Walden. But what they really like about Eddie is that he swings. It seems that Mavis is a nymphomaniac, Emil tres gay, and Edward can play both ways...
...lectures and seminars in four areas-Science and Human Values, Current Economic Problems, Literature and Contemporary Affairs, and the Scientific Age: Dream and Reality. The faculty includes four Dartmouth professors in fields from physics to philosophy. Preparatory reading includes the Book of Job, Thoreau's Walden, Shakespeare's As You Like It, Golding's Lord of the Flies. On the evening agenda: plays, concerts, seminars in international affairs. In short, Dartmouth aims at what most U.S. colleges only dream of: "a sustained, serious intellectual relationship with its alumni...