Word: walden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Private Walden. Henry Thoreau, summing up his own experience of the world, wrote. "I have traveled a good deal in Concord.'' Like Thoreau. Andrew Wyeth detests the idea of venturing beyond his own familiar Walden. He has traveled a good deal in Chadds Ford, Pa., where he spends his winters, and in rugged Port Clyde, Me., where he goes in summer...
Even so, most candidates in the cities still run as segregationists. "In many cases," says A. T. Walden, head of the Negro Voters League, "it's a choice between evils." Often Negro leaders-happy enough to be bargained with at all-fail to get firm promises for the choice they make. Says Southern Regional Council Executive Director Leslie Dunbar: "They just haven't learned to cash in on their power yet. It doesn't make any sense in cities like Atlanta, where Negroes have strategic power, to wait until 1962 till Negro policemen can arrest whites...
...WALDEN CASSOTTO'S NO WALLFLOWER," SAYS THAT "LIVING DOLL," ALEXANDRA ZUCK (Bobby Darin and Sandra...
...dream was a student-built campus on the Monterey Peninsula, to be called Walden West-"a countermovement to the increasing rigidity and lack of human contact of most undergraduate schools." After a year of planning, recalls Duskin, "I understood that we were mad. We were completely hung up on buildings and floating loans and playing on the guilty consciences of the rich for donations...
...national park for $1 (or in some cases, nothing) and an outlay of as little as $200 for equipment that will last for years. For a great number of other people, the urge goes deeper than economics: in a sense they still seek what Thoreau looked for at Walden...