Word: antiwar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation disarmament conference after a five-month recess. Their euphoria even infected the café au lait-colored Palais des Nations, where some 200 reassembled officials settled back into their bronze and green leather chairs-as usual, leaving three seats vacant for nonattending France-and prepared for the sixth antiwar jaw session since the disarmament conference got under way in 1962. Buoyed by last August's partial test ban treaty, most Western and neutral negotiators expected action this time and greeted a new five-point program from President Johnson as a hopeful starting point. "The U.S.," said...
Germany's late Bertolt Brecht, is a play of bottomless ironies and paradoxes. It is a stubbornly antiheroic play with a mulishly magnificent heroine. It is an antiwar play that assumes war will never end. Coming from a Communist, it is an anti-bourgeois play, but it negates all ideologies by farcically reducing them to futility. It is a play ostensibly demonstrating the relentless sweep of history, but actually revealing the tenacious, indomitable life force in human beings that survives history. Finally, Mother Courage is a black, corrosive comedy that almost alone among 20th century plays approaches the purgative...
...Glory, by Pierre-Henri Simon. Writing an eloquent antiwar tract in the form of a novel, the author tells the agony of a French professional soldier who, in Algeria, comes to believe that his is an ignoble role in a shameful...
...Glory, by Pierre-Henri Simon. Writing an eloquent antiwar tract in the form of a novel, the author tells the agony of a French professional soldier who, in Algeria, comes to believe that his is an ignoble role in a shameful...
...Glory, by Pierre-Henri Simon. Writing an eloquent antiwar tract, in the form of a novel, the author tells the agony of a French professional soldier who, in Algeria, comes to believe that his is an ignoble role in a shameful...