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Fifty disciples of Henry D. Thoreau, Class of 1837, will walk from Walden Pond to the Internal Revenue Service office in Boston today and tomorrow to protest the use of their tax money for the war in Vietnam...
...their "Thoreau Walk," some of them will risk arrest by publicly refusing to pay their taxes for this year...
...price-to go to jail if necessary-in order to witness to what they believe in. I wonder if the members of the white Citizens Councils are willing to do the same?" The tradition of civil disobedience in our country is an old one. When Henry Thoreau refused to pay taxes that were being used to finance a war that he regarded as unjust, he was imprisoned. When Ralph Waldo Emerson visited him, he said, "Henry, why are you here?" And Thoreau replied, "Waldo, why are you not here...
...Harvard, Dr. King chose not to analyze issues. Instead he spoke eloquently, with the rhetoric of the preacher and politician, and interspersed platitudes with references to William James, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Thoreau, Gordon Allport and a score more. His speech here was not very good. In another context--e.g., the dramatic setting of the Washington March--he can be magnificent...
Died. Donald Culross Peattie, 66, poet, author and naturalist, who in more than 25 lyrical books (An Almanac for Moderns, A Cup of Sky) gave new voice to Thoreau's idea that man reaches spiritual fulfillment only through contact with nature, saying that "it touches a man that his blood is sea water and his tears are salt, and he who goes in no consciousness of these facts is without a home or any contact with reality"; of a heart attack; in Santa Barbara, Calif...