Word: pacificist
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...making a kinder, gentler statement about the armed forces. The Prime Minister has been under pressure from NATO to add to the roughly 750 Spanish troops now deployed in Afghanistan, though at the recent NATO summit in Bucharest he maintained that current levels were sufficient. Among the largely pacificist Spanish population, support for military participation in combat is weak (over 50% of Spaniards support withdrawing their troops from Afghanistan altogether). But humanitarian and peace-keeping missions are another story: a 2005 poll by the Madrid-based Center for Sociological Research puts public support for those military efforts at more than...
Tuesday, Oct. 11—Tuesday, Nov. 29. In The Trenches: Filming World War I. Filmic representations of World War I ranging from buddy stories to jingoistic and pacificist revisionism. The series includes Kubrick’s “Paths of Glory” and Howard Hughes’ “Hell’s Angels.” Tickets $8; students and seniors $6. Tickets at the Harvard Film Archive...