Word: walden
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That is how Henry David Thoreau felt in July 1845 as he went into the woods at Walden Pond. He built himself a little cabin, largely out of secondhand materials, the cost of which he recorded in precise Yankee style: $28.12½, including a 10? latch and a penny piece of chalk. Thus he began his celebrated two-year sojourn in happy isolation. Last week. 116 years later, Thoreau would have been able to find his clump of woods easily enough, but not necessarily the solitude to permit him to drive life into a corner. The snort and belch...
Writer's Lot. There is no chronology to Hear Us, and some of these episodes are merely hinted at. One piece, The Forest Path to the Spring, is masterly-a vibrant nature idyl that is in a direct spiritual descent from Thoreau's Walden. But the bulk of the book displays an occupational disease of 20th century writers : writing about writing and the writer's lot. In Elephant and Colosseum, Lowry tries the bulky device of symbolizing his work as an elephant, presumably patient, massive, mnemonic, with a final trumpeting of glory. In Strange Comfort Afforded...
...three admissions requirements are: A diploma from "an accredited high school," a recommendation from that school, and score no lower than 400 in the SAT's. Walden C. Irish, Admissions Counselor, remarked that students in the 400's are borderline cases and must have strong extra-curricular assets in order to be admitted. Foreign students, he said, must meet higher requirements--and usually do--adding that "Our athletic coaches cannot admit any students or give any financial aid. They make recommendations. We decide who is to be admitted and who is to be given financial...
...Tone Rolls. Someone else might well have been Bobby Darin. The incumbent, born Walden Robert Cassotto in The Bronx in 1936, contracted a near-fatal case of rheumatic fever at the age of eight. His father, described by Darin as a small-scale gangster, died before Bobby was born. Supported by his mother's relief money, he grew up in one of Manhattan's toughest and poorest neighborhoods, steadily refused membership in district gangs, studied hard and learned to play the drums, won admission to the excellent Bronx High School of Science. During vacations, he picked up show...
Making the point that while the U.S.S.R. uses its satellites for propaganda, the U.S. should put its space efforts to practical purposes. Pierce recalled a passage from Thoreau's Walden: "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." Added Pierce: "Perhaps we hear a different drummer...