Word: doves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mumford sees him, contemporary man is about as well suited to a place in the Mumford futurama as a Rhode Island rooster is suited to cooing like a dove and soaring like an eagle. Modern man has but one real belief: "Modern man can do no wrong." He regards all strong emotions (with the exception of violence) as "hysterical or funny." The "morality of the 'dead-pan'" is so exclusively his basic morality that by the time he reaches college he has one chance in three of being a "moral imbecile." He is "too numb even to hate...
Hunters who see an off-color dove this shooting season should report it at once to the nearest wildlife authorities. It will not be a new species, just an ordinary, greyish-brown mourning dove that has been trapped and dipped in a tray...
...signatures of many an eminent man who should have known better. Italy's Elder Statesman Vittorio Emanuele Orlando signed; so did ex-Premier Saverio Nitti. In Canada, Clergyman Alexander James Wilson signed because "I would do anything under heaven to ensure peace." In the days when the dove was really flapping, his prize victim was Henry Wallace, who pleaded that the Russians were misunderstood and that "the tougher we get, the tougher the Russians get." Others confusedly offered plans for "proving" the U.S. meant no offense. Example: Connecticut's Senator Brien McMahon's proposal for atomic disarmament...
...dove also fooled harder-headed men, and less obviously. For one of the dove's faces is terror. To the Russians, the peace-lovers warned, the least gesture of self-defense looks hostile. Russians were so nervous, in fact, that the slightest thing might terrify them into fighting. Such pleaders urged a peace of paralysis. In Germany Pastor Martin Niemoller and Kurt Schumacher's Socialists argued inanely that though the Communists had built the East German army to 200,000 men, the formation of a few West German battalions would provoke...
Expanding Peace. Korea was a blow that would have killed a less resilient bird than Russia's dove. Just before the invasion, the Peace Partisans announced that more than half the North Korean population had signed the Stockholm Peace Appeal. But the redoubtable peace-lovers quickly set to work. "Mothers are to instill into their children a deep hatred of the imperialist warmongers, the murderers of Korean women and children," announced the Bulgarian Peace Congress. Early this year, something called the World Peace Council demanded that the United Nations withdraw its charge that the Chinese were aggressors...