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...Henry David Thoreau. His eloquent thought has motivated some of the most courageous acts of civil disobedience, defiance and demonstration against injustice in any form since Antigone resisted Creon...
...quarter of a century he never left the Abbey of Gethsemani, except for trips to the doctor or drives with visiting friends around neighboring Kentucky hills. In fact, for almost a decade, with his ab bot's permission, he had withdrawn from much of the community life, living Thoreau-like in a small hermitage on abbey property more than a mile from the main buildings. This year he was finally granted a leave of absence from Gethsemani to study Oriental monasticism and its possible application to the Western contemplative tradition...
...Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin, a man of unimpeachable conscience and motivation, whose Thoreau-like dissent has inspired thousands and ennobled...
...DREAM WATCHER by Barbara Wersba (Atheneum, $3.95). Albert is a misfit-he reads Thoreau, enjoys gardening, and is always worried about his "crummy soul." As a mini-Holden Caulfield he is as real...
...satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it. So wrote Upton Beall Sinclair of an era that cried out for reform at almost every level of American life. He was a quixotic dreamer, an eccentric, a compulsive dissenter in the intellectual tradition of a Thoreau or a Tom Paine. Yet Sinclair, who died last week at 90 in a New Jersey nursing home, battled so many causes to the finish that the American conscience and the quality of American life were permanently affected by his concern, courage and compassion. And, more than six decades before today...