Word: thoreauvians
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...Eastern Seaboard, echoes of history mingled with the pressures of the present. More than 4,000 demonstrators mustered on the Boston Common before a draft-card burning at which 67 men ignited their cards with a candlestick once owned by William Ellery Channing, the 19th century Unitarian divine and Thoreauvian advocate of civil disobedience, who wrote: "Our first duties are not to our country. We belong first to God and next to our race." Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin, a longtime activist who has marched against Southern white racism as well as the war, conceded that many latter-day dissenters...
...shoot! That scruffy Thoreauvian prowling around the woods with that chewed-up hat and the two-day grizzle was suave old Bing Crosby, 61, cheerfully letting his whiskers run to seed up in the Rocky Mountains. Cast in the role of the amiable, boozy doctor in a movie remake of Stagecoach, Bing bunked down at the Caribou Country Club and Ranch near Nederland, Colo., made some scenes for the horse opera, fished for rainbow trout with his son Harry, 7, and mused happily: "I look a bit like a Skid...