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...actuality. Parents know better. Sam spends five months without a bowl of cereal or a pair of rubbers, yet never catches a cold, never asks for a glass of water at night and never needs a Band-Aid. My Side of the Mountain may be as delightful as Walden but it is plainly as fantastic as Snow White...
...control and de-centralization in the U.S. were mentioned only very briefly. The sense of urgency seemed lacking, buried in reasoned discussion. The student observers at the conference (by no means militants themselves) fantasized about yelling obscenities or enacting a guerrilla theatre just to shake things up. And Brian Walden, a labor M.P. in Great Britain, seemed to put his finger on the problems when he said, "I am a politician. I therefore have an advantage over most of the people here--I sometimes see ordinary people...
...Hell, half the world wants to be like Thoreau at Walden," Painter Franz Kline once remarked, "worrying about the noise of the traffic on the way to Boston. The other half use up their lives being part of that noise. I like the second half." He painted the noise, in hurtling compositions that were apt to bear the names of locomotives or place-names of his native Pennsylvania coal country. Together with his fellow abstract expressionists, he split the Manhattan art world of the early 1950s into two camps. The conservatives damned them because their work not only obliterated...
...soul music. They even had a similar hangup: Carol sleeps with a "security blanket," while Pat feels lost without her own well-worn pillow. "I'm messy," says Carol, "and so is she." Don Denzin and James Sherry found companionship in a mutual appreciation of Thoreau's Walden and a joint jam session-Don on clarinet, Jim on guitar. Carol Tucker and Lynn McElroy were delighted by the matching because, as Carol explains it, "we're built the same and are both outdoorsy." That already has led to tennis-playing fun on double dates...
...majority opinion that read like a precis of Thoreau's Walden, Judge Kenneth Keating mourned "the intrusion of the seemingly endless line of asphalt and concrete into the enclaves which many have sought as surcease from the hustle and bustle of modern-day life." Keating's decision was in line with a landmark 1946 ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court, involving a North Carolina farmer. He had sued the Government because the noise of military planes from a nearby airfield had reduced his chickens to a state of eggless nervous collapse...