Word: pacifistically
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...Budapest. Her father Imre was at the top of his class in a private school but unable to attend university because of restrictions on Jewish admission. As a result, he immersed himself in photography, developing his own darkroom techniques and leaving behind a striking black-and-white archive. A pacifist and intellectual, Imre refused to allow even popguns in his home, opposed the circumcision of his son and delighted in making whole villages out of folded paper for his children. "He was such a gentle, modest man," says Judit. "It was impossible not to love my father." The sound...
...home, first use provoked protest from the pacifist left, most dramatically against President Reagan, who was portrayed as a nuclear cowboy. This was silly. The doctrine of first use made perfect sense. It kept the peace. It also demonstrated the peculiar utility of otherwise unusable nuclear weapons: to deter a conventional attack...
...implications they draw from the event." It is to be released in Paris on Sept. 11 and may well prove controversial, since some of the films depict stridently anti-American attitudes. Artists in the third category are those trying to influence future events. The Oxford Research Group, a British pacifist think tank, is to mount a series of performances around Sept. 11 at the Royal Opera House's Linbury Studio. Music by Chloë Goodchild, who was flying over New York near the time of the attacks, will alternate with poetry readings and speeches from those who have renounced violence...
...Stripes was proudly displayed at universities across the nation as a symbol of solidarity and hope. The last time American flags were so prominent on college campuses—during the Vietnam era—they were burning. Harvard, a liberal school that could only be described as pacifist for the last 30 years, was ready for America to go to war. Sixty-nine percent of Harvard students surveyed by The Crimson in late September wanted to take military action against those responsible for the attacks, and 50 percent wanted to change U.S. law to allow for the assassination...
...When the Pacifist Council asked Russian-born Professor of Psychology Pitirim A. Sorokin to be their consultant, he declined. Even though he had come to the U.S. three decades earlier, he said his Russian background made him an inappropriate choice for the position...