Word: walden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ACCOMPANIMENT OF the sounds of a tropical forest in a bird-infested jungle and flashing projection of lighting, John Cage, when he was at Harvard last semester, presented a multi-media symphonic reading of Thoreau's Walden, with a dozen readers speaking simultaneously in irregular polyphony. With its torrential waves of sentences upon sentences, and splashing words and spilling syllables, the Cage extravaganza explored the possibilities of the human voice when reduced to a cascading unintelligibility. Cage showed the cathartic effect of flooding all the senses, and I remember myself screaming in unison at the top of my lungs toward...
...scheduled to bring water from the Colorado River to the parched southern portion of the state by 1985. "Without CAP," said Wes Steiner, executive director of the state's water commission, "all agricultural production in Arizona would have to stop." Warned a pecan and cotton grower, Keith Walden: "Tucson will be covered up with sand and become a ghost town within a hundred years." Said Jack Francis Jr., co-owner of the state's biggest cotton-gin firm: "The news was like having your dad die when you're 17. You just aren't ready...
Chosen Route. In this account of his own autumnal days on Martha's Vineyard, Hough, with great skill and charm, approaches the pangs and pleasures of aging in ways that very much recall Walden's formula: keep track of housekeeping details and the transcendental homilies will take care of themselves. At home Hough's day still begins as it has for years, with a predawn walk to Edgartown's harbor light. Graham goes along but does not always agree to the route his master has chosen, and, like many Americans, has "a weakness for excavation...
...center had to merge with the Walden Square Children's Center in North Cambridge because of reduced funds from the Massachusetts Welfare Department, she said...
Then Cambridge. The Charles a muddy sink with built-in garbage disposal. Walden Pond a kiddie matinee. Faucet water flat and stale as month-old Fritos. And even then, no shower attachment in the house. Sisters, mothers, water brothers, no place to go once a laughing river seduces you and runs away...