Word: pacifistically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This pacifist paradox is illustrated in an incident of the Korean war. Three U.S. soldiers, a sergeant and two privates, rescue a North Korean airman (Enrique Magalona) downed in an inlet. When they radio headquarters, they receive a command worded with discretion but ice-clear in intention; shoot the prisoner. The sergeant (Kirk Douglas) brusquely orders the privates to do it. The first (Robert Walker) refuses. The second (Nick Adams) raises his pistol-but cannot pull the trigger. The sergeant explodes. A private replies: "Why not shoot him yourself, sir? And look him right in the eye." The sergeant...
...Establishment. People who have arrived don't care what you say." Nor does anyone seem to mind the frequency with which Brooks, a public school boy who turned socialist in the Depression, uses his ads to plug for left-wing causes. Seeking a house for Pacifist Philosopher Bertrand Russell. Brooks recently pontificated: "Another old client. Earl Russell, seeks house anywhere London; scruffy area around St. Pancras would do. Short lease, about five years. Presumably within that time sanity-or the bomb-will have prevailed...
...worst failing is the character of Lawrence himself. It's not that he is unhistorical (this may well be true): he is unbelievable. A curious amalgam of Joan of Arc and Alcibiades, this Lawrence passes through a succession of fatuous poses. He begins as a simple pacifist pan-Arab fanatic, and through a hilarious concatenation of Grade B events (he is forced to shoot two intimate friends and watch a third sink smoothly into quickland) comes to realize that his mission will involve him in shedding blood. This, however, comes rather to appeal to him ("I enjoyed it, I enjoyed...
...have some opinions of the motley reactionaries who are picketing this meeting," Hargis said. "In this city, the cradle of freedom, I see here the seeds of vicious dictatorship. I wonder if these groups would be so concerned if this was a pacifist rally...
...Trotskyite. In the past, Macdonald was best known for his political commentary. After a youthful stint with FORTUNE and The Partisan Review, he started his own magazine, Politics, in 1944 and was its principal contributor. Once (briefly) a Trotskyite, he now proclaimed himself a philosophical anarchist and a pacifist. The times, Macdonald wrote, called for "attention, reporting exposure, analysis, satire, indignation, lamentation." In the five years Politics was published, Macdonald supplied all of these in abundance. Long before it was permitted in liberal circles, Macdonald was an outspoken antiCommunist. Like George Orwell, he directed his fiercest fire at his friends...