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...There weren’t Thoreaus everywhere in the world, so we have to look around and find other data sets that can tell us the same story," Willis said...
BILLINGS, Mont.: The Thoreaus-with-guns Montana Freemen disdain to recognize the U.S. justice system. The system has been quick to return the sentiment. As opening statements began Tuesday in the trial of six Freemen for abetting other Freemen in their 1996 standoff with the FBI, four of them watched on TV from a holding cell, banished from the courtroom Monday for shouting and cursing. Two sat at the defense table but also refused to participate as their court-appointed lawyers began their opening statements...
...that service in Viet Nam is another. In that case, the conflict between the two arguments is in a sense insoluble, and the answer is not at all satisfactory: the law must be disobeyed, but the law's penalty must be accepted. That is the solution of the Thoreaus, the Gandhis and the Kings, and it must be the solution for the current resisters and deserters as well. The country can appreciate their courage and their convictions, but cannot excuse them from the consequences of breaking...
Where are the Wests, the Thoreaus, the Gardners of today? Some claim that eccentricity is vanishing in America, Mrs. O'Hair notwithstanding. Appearance mav seem to belie this conclusion, since the age abounds with beards, long hair, acidheads and nude actresses. Skeptics argue, however, that all this is actually more conformity than eccentricity. As they see it, urbanization has freed Americans from many small-town strictures but has left millions of young people yearning for acceptance in new groups-the hippies, for example-that create their own standards. "Eccentricity," says New York Sociologist Werner Cahnman, "frequently becomes only...
...Among the quasi-Thoreaus: Nelson Algren, James Baldwin, Eric Bentley, Allen Ginsburg, Paul Goodman, Betty Friedan, Dwight Macdonald, Henry Miller, Terry Southern, Benjamin Spock, William Styron...