Word: marcher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prof. Hughes' campaign only had meaning for the voters, for his workers, and for himself as long as the myth persisted that it really made a difference whether someone was interested in "peace." The frustration of the peace marcher, who was so insulted when the State Department did not actually talk policy with him was similar in kind, if not in quantity, to the frustration of the American citizen who stood by watching the drama unfold in the Caribbean. Both felt impotence, both felt despair...
...Reese slips into macabre, sick-style prison humor: "Ain't I a pain in the neck?" says the hangman to the condemned. But some of his cartoons rise to a choking pitch of bitterness, a stifled scream: "You with the dignity," a guard shouts at a curiously proud marcher in a gang of grey. "Get back in line...
...dramatic, arising partly from squeamishness about melodrama, that greatest of sins against artistic sophistication. Another is the honest awareness of serious men that the cavalry rarely does charge into ordinary lives. One might suspect that Schwartz and his colleagues had all been invited to tea by John Marcher-the hero of Henry James's The Beast in the Jungle, whose distinguishing mark was that nothing ever happened to him-and that halfway through someone had slammed the door closed, leaving the quarterly writers locked inside...
...scheduled 5,000-marcher protest against German NATO Panzer divisions now training in Wales fizzled out: only 400 marchers appeared. British labor refused a C.N.D. plea for a two-day strike against the resumption of nuclear testing. More important was the effect on Britain's powerful Trades Union Congress, representing 8,000,000 workers, and the backbone of the Labor Party. A year ago the T.U.C. embarrassed Labor Leader Hugh Gaitskell by voting a resolution urging Britain's unilateral nuclear disarmament. Meeting for the annual conference last week in the wake of Russia's new tests...