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...Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg" at 4, 5:45, 7:30, 9:15 and Saturday matinee at 2:15 through Thursday, Mar. 10. This engaging and tender documentary portrays a view of the last fifty years through the penetrating eyes of the visionary poet and pacifist, Allen Ginsberg...
Twice in my life, in 1967 and again in 1973, I saw the face of war as a reservist soldier, first in Sinai and then in the Golan Heights. That experience turned me into a peace activist, but not into a pacifist ready to turn the other cheek to an enemy. If anyone tries to take my life or the life of my people, I will fight. I will fight if anyone tries to enslave us, but nothing short of the defense of life and freedom could make me take up arms. "National interest," "ancestral rights" and an extra bedroom...
...groups. A couple of silverbacks, or mature males, go through the motions of halfhearted charges, but most do not come forward even in response to distress calls and hand clapping by apprehensive females when we get between them and the males. We take to calling these circumspect males the "pacifist gorillas of Ndoki." The gorillas also seemed blithely unaware that they are supposed to be ungainly in trees. One giant silverback jumped between several trees and ended up 50 m (160 ft.) from the ground at the very top of the canopy...
...fears the deadly approach of pacifist sentimentality, some variation on those World War I tales of Yuletide fraternization in no-man's-land. A Midnight Clear, which is based on a William Wharton novel, evades that onslaught. Loopy Mother sees to that. And even if he had not come out of his half-mad nowhere to violently abort a very sensible arrangement, there is, after all, a war going on out there somewhere. What hope can there possibly be for humane gesturing...
...strain on relations with the U.S. Ronald Reagan was caught off guard by the 1981 bombing of an Iraqi nuclear reactor, and a year later by Israel's bloody invasion of Lebanon. Such actions served to underscore a fundamental duality in Begin's nature: the peacemaker was not a pacifist, and never abandoned his dream of a Greater Israel...