Word: pacifistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Animalen, however, was not the best choice to inaugurate the Ordway operatically, even though it reflects both the region's Scandinavian ethnic background and the Minnesota Opera's long-standing commitment to new works. More a politically pacifist, musically jejune cabaret than an opera, it concerns a convention of animals that are worried about the nuclear arms race. They lecture representatives from the U.S. and the Soviet Union on the importance of avoiding war, and later turn up at a peace conference in Vienna. There a romance between a Las Vegas-type American entertainer and a Soviet chanteuse ends...
...Democrats would have to disown the quasi-isolationist and quasi-pacifist positions of many liberals (which Walter Mondale did only partly toward the end of the campaign). Similarly, Reagan would have to continue distancing himself from the far right. There is a lot of room for him to do that without in any real sense "going soft." He can argue with reason that he is now able to negotiate from strength. A tough but realistic position on arms control may well win bipartisan approval...
...critics wonder whether the President's apparent belief in a particular biblical scenario for the end of the world means that he might consider nuclear war a divine instrument. Accordingly, more than 100 religious figures, many from the antinuclear left (among them the Rev. William Sloane Coffin and Pacifist Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Gumbleton), held a Washington press conference last week to declare it "profoundly disturbing" that high political leaders "might identify with extremists who believe that nuclear war is inevitable and imminent." They also attacked the religious right for supposedly believing "that reconciliation with America's adversaries...
Sixty-four year old writer Grace Paley, self-proclaimed "combative pacifist and cooperative anarchist," brought her audience of 150 to laughs and tears last night with lively readings of her feminist fiction...
...mutual assured destruction (MAD). Schell argued that the apocalyptic nature of nuclear war had rendered obsolete not only war itself but the concept of national sovereignty. He called on the superpowers to eliminate nuclear weapons and to "reinvent politics" by creating a world government loosely based on the pacifist ideals of Mahatma Gandhi. His message was ultimately defeatist: unless the world took his vaguely defined and wildly Utopian advice, it was doomed...