Word: pacifistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...family member, during the fateful summer of 1936. Among the moneyed Hallams, who are paradigms of noblesse oblige and liberal rectitude, the Spanish Civil War has become a daily obsession, and the eventuality of a broader war in Europe is an accepted fact. This political awareness, and their pacifist response, makes the Hallams national celebrities but slowly turns them into village pariahs. The ghostly bones of the title are used by local toughs in a campaign of harassment that ends in murder...
Before long I was going up to Vermont to campaign for a pacifist congressman. The next thing I knew I was on the executive committee [of Tocsin]. It all happened in a month. Tocsin became the center of my life for the next two years...
...Rules. That was probably the biggest thing," Kennedy says. "You can get in trouble really easily here--you have to be a total pacifist...
...about this: long-haired hippie from working-class family in ancient Palestine (salt of the earth dad, saintly mom) falls in with tough crowd of longshoremen, starts proletarian pacifist movement and gets offed by protofascist pigs from Rome...
...such Hollywood devices. Though he can locate the dread gracelessness of real carnage in the film's climactic gunfight, the rest of the movie is lumbering as well. He pits a few good men against corporate Evil, then stereotypes their sanctity. Joe may be attracted to Elma, but the pacifist in him would never show lust: he doesn't do widows. And by the time the noble blacks start harmonizing with the noble Italians, you may be ready to cheer for the villains...