Word: pacifistically
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...strange conception. Lilley's son Jeffrey initiated the project more than five years ago to learn more about his father's idealistic, superachieving brother, Frank, who committed suicide at the age of 26 while posted in Japan as a detachment commander during the U.S. military occupation. A pacifist, Frank was crushed by the destruction he saw in Japan and felt conflicted by his belief that military might was America's way forward, which he expressed to his younger brother in a good-bye letter. Frank, a world-record swimmer and president of his class at Exeter, figures prominently...
...those among the occupied people most willing to say the things the occupiers want to hear. Only once they're defeated can the colonial powers grant due respect to a "rabble rouser" like Mahatma Gandhi or a "terrorist" like Nelson Mandela. (Mandela has improbably been morphed into a pacifist in the American imagination; he was in fact the proud commander of a guerrilla army who got his own military training in Algeria and saw "armed struggle" as an integral component of his campaign against the apartheid regime...
...pacifist consensus. Forget pleasant sentiments. This humanitarian breaks taboos and reveals matters that render us sleepless. Faced with the globalized inhumanity that is burning the 21st century, Kouchner is introducing a new humanism without geographical or political borders. He does it not to open the gates of paradise, but to bolt the gates of hell. --BY ANDRE GLUCKSMANN, philosopher and political essayist
...film as that which Laurence Stallings has produced, like "What Price Glory" like post-war "horror" fiction, is only an intensified reaction. There has been a certain sophistication and a certain weariness in the reaction of the last eight years, however, which must help to keep the idealism of pacifists from too lofty soaring. Every human being is by definition a pacifist. But it is only in the realization by human beings, a realization that is quickened and crystallized by such social influences on public opinion as "The Big Parade", that they are pacifists, that the impossible will ever...
...fundamentalists, today many moderate parents choose to educate their children at home through twelfth grade, and then send them to regular colleges. Carey’s family was featured in the article as part of the trend, and her mother, Maureen Carey, was described as a Quaker and a pacifist...