Word: surveyor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the driver smiled. "Downtown? This isn't Tel Aviv-yet." Certainly not, judging from a first look at the treeless landscape, flat stretches of fine reddish gravel, and cone-shaped peaks of the bleak Sinai range. But the driver's yet was indicative. Small red surveyor's pennants are everywhere along the road...
Born in Wise, Va., and raised in Michigan, Scott spent much of his childhood "being terrified of my father." Scott's father, George D., was a coal mine surveyor when the Depression shut down most of the mines in the area. He moved his family to Pontiac, Mich., where, he brags, "I worked my ass off and the family never missed a meal. It was drive, drive, drive." Scott's mother Helen (called "Honey") was an elocutionist who gave public poetry readings and occasionally contributed verse to the local papers. She spent hours teaching her son how to read stories...
...rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone," said Henry David Thoreau, the most conspicuous nonconsumer in American letters. At $7.50 this slim, handsome gathering of maps, sketches and photos, which serve as a guide to Thoreau's travels as a naturalist, surveyor, dropout and poet, should please-but not greatly compromise-admirers of H.D.T.'s writings and principles...
...deal of unsympathetic behavior from him. He invariably used the old greeting "God be praised" instead of "Heil Hitler." In 1940 he huffed out of a packed Berlin movie house during that famous newsreel in which Hitler jigs over fallen France. Even when he threw a government industrial-site surveyor off his estate, nothing happened...