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Describing his Quaker parents and Chicago boyhood, Rorem vividly evokes a vanished time when certain American middle-class families combined strong moral convictions with cultural avidity and a surprising broadmindedness. In the budding composer, these tendencies took more extreme forms than were typical: he was a lifelong pacifist, revealed a precocious appreciation of modern music (Stravinsky) and poetry (T.S. Eliot), and -- beginning at age 14 -- fearlessly cruised the local park for anonymous sex with...
Harvard started off the game pretty well, but soon, the Quakers shed their pacifist image and stepped up their attack...
Well...yes, it is. Maybe not if you're a die-hard pacifist, or if you don't like Jamie Lee Curtis, or if you get scared by explosions. But every one else should enjoy this movie...
Harvard College, according to a year book poll,was evenly split at the beginning of the war: 36percent non-interventionist, 36 percentinterventionist, 11 percent pacifist and 17percent undecided...
...lifetime of combative journalism, Dwight Macdonald wrote too much and sometimes too carelessly, left many projects half finished and was variously a Trotskyite, a socialist, a pacifist, an anarchist and an aging camp follower of the student lefties of '68. Yet despite his lack of discipline and consistency, many of his essays remain classics: consider his merciless dissection of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible. Reading that often tin-eared update of the beloved King James, Macdonald wrote, "is like walking through an old city that has just been given, if not a saturation bombing, a thorough going-over...