Word: antiwar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clubs and P.T.A.s throughout Japan, house wives go in for cooking classes, sewing circles, charity drives. Wives can also be militant, and have often backed their husbands in strikes by bullying shopkeepers into advancing credit, badgering government officials and forming picket lines. The women of Japan are fiercely antiwar, anti-rearmament, anti-H-bomb...
Shadow of Doomsday. Just such an incident was the theme of J. B. Priestley's antiwar melodrama called Doomsday for Dyson, which millions of Britons saw over TV. At Birmingham University a student "peace committee" put on a showing of the film, The Shadow of Hiroshima. The press reported daily the progress of a survey being made of university students by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Though the results were hardly conclusive -e.g., only 1,330 out of London University's 24,000 students even bothered to answer the questionnaire-the press gave the distinct impression that those...
...vanities-neither voting, nor holding office, nor bearing arms, nor wearing gaudy clothing. As with so many severely odd Christian offshoots, the Hutterites soon found themselves hounded and on the move. In the 18th century they emigrated to Russia, in the 19th to the U.S. In 1918 their antiwar sentiments got them chased out of South Dakota to Canada, but in the early 1930s drought hit South Dakota; South Dakota farmers left the state in droves, and the Hutterites were invited back...
...into the Army; there is little enthusiasm for the military life, no enthusiasm for war. Youngsters do not talk like heroes; they admit freely that they will try to stay out of the draft as long as they can. But there is none of the systematized and sentimentalized antiwar feeling of the '205. Pacifism has been almost nonexistent since World War II; so are Oxford Oaths. Some observers regard this as a sign of youth's passivity. But, as a student at Harvard puts it: "When a fellow gets his draft notice in February and keeps on working...
...though it moves too slowly now & then, and a good cast (including Eve Arden as the Congresswoman's flip secretary) trails along, tossing garlands of Playwright Fay Kanin's bright dialogue and remnants of her original message. On Broadway, the heroine's controversial documentary was an antiwar film. In the Hollywood version, she sponsors a movie preaching academic freedom. As the scripters handle it, this glib switch-no doubt an expedient one-leaves the issue so vaguely generalized that, for all the picture's righteous pounding, it rings pretty hollow...