Word: pacifistically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...despair when quiet and sophisticated friends were caught up in the storm of revolt and swept into the movement on waves of emotion and hate; the endless search for identity, truth, meaning, love and hate shared with Negroes the summer of 1963. And the history of another and originally pacifist group of Anabaptists, seemed applicable to Negroes...
...them. NBC televised a show in which Eatherly was made out to be a football star. A Hollywood script was written in which Eatherly repents of Hiroshima at his dying mother's bedside. (Robert Ryan or Audie Murphy was considered for the part of Eatherly.) A prominent German pacifist, Gunther Anders, corresponded with Eatherly, then had the letters published in European newspapers. Communists chimed in with their own fulsome praise of this "prisoner" of the capitalists...
...John F. Kennedy. Although on a smaller scale than the late President, Sorensen was also brought up on politics. His father, Christian Abraham Sorensen, rose from the Nebraska prairie sod house in which he was born to become state attorney general. His mother, Annis Chaikin Sorensen, was a convinced pacifist and feminist from a Russian-Jewish family...
...watch television; she once confided to a friend that he had intercourse with her only about once every two months. Also during this time he hid his rifle, wrapped in a blanket, in the Paine garage. Marina knew it was there. But realizing that Ruth, a strong pacifist, would object, she said nothing about...
...problem is, as suggested above, that the ambiguities involved in these parallels seriously limit them, and could easily lead even a careful scholar toward a pseudo-analytic approach to history. Hughes recounts, for example, how one of his students, studying the life of an armaments expert with pacifist tendencies, could not understand why the expert developed a crippling block against completing the military research he was involved in. "The solution lay right before him," Hughes says. "For the student had quite unwittingly run up against a classic case of inner conflict. His protagonist's technical and military pride were locked...