Word: thoreau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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King's uniqueness lay not in the philosophy of non-violence he pieced together from Gandhi, Thoreau and others, but in the wholehearted Americanism with which he fought his battles. When an injunction was issued to halt the Memphis sanitation workers' demonstration he planned to lead, King called it a totalitarian measure--the kind one would expect of the Russians or Chinese. "Somewhere I have read," King said, "somewhere I have read of the freedom of assembly...
...much a part of the Vineyard scenery as colored clay cliffs and salt marshes. Its present editor, Henry Hough, 71, who bought it in 1920, is a regional novelist (Lament for a City) and folklorist (Thoreau of Walden). And he has never ceased to celebrate the charms of the Vineyard in his paper. "It ought to be the function of the newspaper," wrote Hough, who will continue as editor, "to keep guard and watch over the singularities of environment, heritage, custom, and response to challenges...
...California, but grew as it became more and more vocal in battles over remaining hunks of wilderness. Stubbornness and publicity now have given it the de facto leadership of the conservation movement. Full of brilliant pictures by photographers like Ansel Adams and Eliot Porter--plus redolent quotes from Thoreau or Robinson Jeffers--its "Exhibit Format" books and paperbacks are selling quickly. Brower has edited most of them. The Coop can't keep Sierra Club posters in stock. The Club counts a growing number of allies in Congress. And since a run-in with Internal Revenue over its tax-exempt status...
...Point overlooking Storm King Mountain. The panorama includes hunters, grazing sheep, and sailboats, but its real subject is the vivid plumage of birch, sugar maple, hemlock and scarlet oak. A century later, Cropsey's portrayal is still fresh and unspoiled, a continuing celebration of the season when, as Thoreau said, "every tree is a living liberty pole, on which a thousand bright flags are flying...
...thing about Henry David Thoreau, when he talked about civil disobedience, he wasn't kidding. Because of his opposition to the Mexican War, he refused to pay a tax and was hustled off to jail. To express their own hostility to the Viet Nam war, 448 contemporary writers and journalists went along with Thoreau last week-or rather part of the way. Quoting Thoreau's ringing challenge to the state, the signers* announced in full-page ads in the New York Post and the New York Review of Books that "1) None of us voluntarily will...