Word: thoreau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...central convictions of their beings." To critics who argue that the sincerity of such a personal code is too hard to ascertain, Wyzanski tartly replied, "Often it is harder to detect a fraudulent adherent to a religious creed than to recognize a sincere moral protestant. We can all discern Thoreau's integrity more quickly than we might detect some churchman's hypocrisy. The suggestion that courts cannot tell a sincere from an insincere conscientious objector underestimates what the judicial process performs every...
...Henry Thoreau's grandfather, Asa Dunbar, who set the pattern for American student rebellions over 200 years ago. As the Mario Savio of 1766, he was protesting against the poor quality of Harvard College chow. His slogan: "Behold our Butter stinketh...
...approach and conclusion. There is a great difference between the eccentric and the radical activist in both motive and methods, a point that you may have been attempting to make when you wrote "Genuine eccentricity generally stops far short of pathological conduct." Madalyn Murray O'Hair, Sirhan Sirhan, Thoreau, the current student radicals, Timothy Leary and Ralph Nader all are radical activists, not mere eccentrics as you have labeled them. Their motive is to change existing social mores or political trends by means of spectacular acts covered by the news media, whether these acts be legal challenge or murder...
...earlier America seemed to have many eccentrics, such as Johnny Appleseed and Thoreau, both of whom heard "a different drummer." The Boston Brahmins produced Eleonora Sears, a ferocious walker who once hiked 110 miles nonstop. Mrs. Isabella Gardner shocked Beacon Hill by practicing Buddhism, drinking beer and strolling down Tremont Street with a lion. Until he died in 1957, "Silver Dollar" Jim West was Houston's favorite millionaire. He owned 30 cars, lived in a $500,000 castle, often wore a pistol and a diamond-studded Texas Ranger's badge. He lugged his own butter to expensive restaurants...
...self. The tension between old and new, past and future weaves through almost all of Mumford's 50 years of prodigious writing on man and his social environment. Mumford remarks philosophically that he's a "rare bird." He may be rarer than he thinks: a kind of latter-day Thoreau, trying to make sense of the twentieth century and plan for the twenty-first...