Word: pacifistic
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...conservatives as to cow them into silence, Mr. Lagon can find but two names to cise. Professor Womack has spoken for himself: Professor Hoffmann, currently out of the country, cannot reply, so we feel obliged in come to his defense. He is charged both with being an "unremitting pacifist" and with leading the Government Department. The first accusation displays a pitiful disregard for the facts. Professor Hoffmann is so far from "unremitting pacifism" that he is willing, in Duties Beyond Borders, to condone preemprive attack (p.60). As for the second-court, we suspect that Professors Huntington, Mansfield, Ulam and Wilson...
...Lagon's criticism is also factually incorrect in a number of respects. Professor Hoffmann is described as an unremitting pacifist despite the clear statement in his book Duties Beyond Borders that "while I am not a pacifist...I have a strong belief that no war is very often better than war." In his letter of 8 March Prof. Womack has already rebutted the "false accusations" that he organised the Grenada demonstration, but it appears that Mr. Lagon considers even speaking at such a meeting to be inconsistent with a faculty position. At a gathering outside of his normal academic responsibilities...
...Hoffmann--who is away on leave this year and thus spared the task of correcting the Harvard Republicans' puerile inaccuracies--are equally false. First, Professor Hoffmann is not Chairman of the Government Department, as a glance at the course catalogue would have established. Secondly, he is not a "unremitting pacifist," as his recent book Duties Beyond Borders (p.10) explicitly states...
...parallel dispute over the alliance's posture toward the Soviet Union. Too many Europeans accept the caricature of a U.S. run by trigger-happy cowboys whose belligerence has provoked Soviet intransigence. Many Americans, on the other hand, consider such European notions naive and believe that together with the pacifist and neutralist demonstrations, they
...studies of polarized light that paved the way for the development of the laser; in Bandol, France. Kastler was drawn to the study of light ever since becoming impressed as a child by a solar eclipse. A self-effacing scientist with outspoken political views, he was a pacifist who strongly opposed nuclear weapons and the war in Viet...