Word: walden
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...made its own energy an article of faith, Thoreau stayed contentedly in Concord, doing as little as he could. "It is not necessary that a man should earn his living by the sweat of his brow," he said, "unless he sweats easier than I do." On the shores of Walden Pond, an easy walk from the Thoreau family home, he built the now world-famous cabin and lived there for two years, two months and two days. What did it prove? Nothing. But that cabin, long since gone, still stands in the hearts of men who dream of the simple...
...while at Walden in 1846 that Thoreau struck another blow for individual freedom, one that, in Harding's judgment, reverberates with more force than ever today. At the time, Thoreau's blow did not count for much. He went to jail for refusing to pay his poll tax-$1.50-his way of protesting against a Government that permitted slavery. But someone, possibly one of Thoreau's aunts, paid off the revenuers, and he was freed after one night behind bars...
...kind of impossible social purity, something akin to repealing the Industrial Revolution. The father has permitted an urgent sense of familial responsibility to blur his ethics on expense accounts and income taxes, but he also recognizes that no one can paddle a family canoe in the idyllic recesses of Walden Pond...
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...
...days ago we went down to the East-West Institute to try a Macrobiotic meal and watch Mr. Michio Kushi, the director, transmute elements, Our disappointment at finding this exotic Oriental institution in an old gray frame house on Walden Street, a few blocks north of Porter Square, disappeared when we opened the door; a healthy smell of brown rice broke over...