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...company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone." So wrote Henry David Thoreau at Walden Pond, the once bucolic site that provided his retreat from civilization. If Thoreau returned today, he would be appalled: last year some 350,000 visitors swarmed through the 400-acre state park near Concord, Mass., in an attempt to recapture the writer's sense of tranquillity...
...Grape Group will spend their evenings watching the classic movie "Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory," viewing mime and magic acts, and being entertained by a puppeteer. Their days will be filled with the Big Apple Circus, roller skating, bowling, museums, the zoo, and a special trek to Walden Pond...
...cooks rely on computer calculations based on past experience to determine the amount to be prepared on a given day. According to Fred Walden, food production manager, calculations are quite accurate and usually precisely the right amount eventually is turned into the day's repast. However, Cathy Hinton '88, who works at the Union's kitchen, says that the computers always miscalculate...
...effort was jinxed at the outset because of her choice of Narada Michael Walden as producer. Walden (who worked with Jeff Beck and helped turn the legendary ax man on to the panacea of disco) here has so little faith in Franklin's raw talents that he keeps drowning her vocals in a sea of special effects. The tracks on Who's Zoomin' skitter back and forth between different styles, from pop to soulful sassiness to coolly hip. The emphasis is always on Walden's pyrotechnical studio tricks...
...schools; indeed, her main reason for moving to Britain in 1982 was to put Olga into a strict boarding school. Arriving too late in the year, however, to enroll the girl in the kind of traditional institution she sought, Svetlana had to settle for a Quaker school in Saffron Walden. The mother moved into an apartment in Cambridge...