Word: thoreau
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...establishment now? "I've always been--from the point of view that Thoreau, Whitman, Williams is the American tradition. So that's one establishment, you might call it the hermetic establishment, the native establishment. Then there's an opposed, fake establishment that runs the money...
That's right. While Harvard's men-in-blue post pictures of Henry David Thoreau, Class of 1836, in their lockers, Dartmouth's policemen prefer snap-shots of Dirty Harry...
...tradition of another Harvard graduate Henry David Thoreau, Class of 1837, these activists were using civil disobedience to express their dissatisfaction with the University's refusal to divest of its South Africa-related stocks. The protesters hoped their arrests would make an outside world--inundated by laudatory cover stories--aware that not everything was rosy in the land of Crimson...
...school that educated Cotton Mather and Robert Oppenheimer and whose former dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Henry Rosovsky, turned down the presidency of Yale in 1977 because he had important work to do at Harvard. It is the university where a student named Henry Thoreau pronounced himself bored, but where such creative successors as T.S. Eliot, Eugene O'Neill, Philip Johnson, Leonard Bernstein and Norman Mailer found inspiration...
...commonwealth. The Minutemen of Lexington and Concord triggered a revolution and a republic. High-minded, contrary and steadfastly liberal, Massachusetts either led the parade or refused to march. It is the cradle not only of liberty but of imagination: John Harvard conceived of a college; Emerson and Thoreau inspired the intellectual flowering of New England; William Lloyd Garrison sparked the abolitionist movement that split a country. The state's hybrid heritage--Puritan and Pilgrim, fisherman and farmer, Yankee and immigrant--combined to form something greater than the sum of its individual strains...