Word: pacifistically
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...enormously skillful political chiller that gave Constantine Costa-Gavras (who has since directed The Confession and State of Siege) his first taste of U.S. box office success. The script is based on the 1963 assassination of Greek pacifist Gregarios Lambrakis. This is a film about government complicity in murder, conspiracy, and obstruction of justice. It could never, of course, happen here. Ch. 56, 9 p.m. Color, 2 1/2 hours...
...from the year before (both figures exclude weapons given away under formal military-aid programs). The Soviet Union ran a close second, registering sales of $4 billion, followed by France, with $1.4 billion. No fewer than 53 other countries also sold arms outside their own borders. Even neutral, pacifist Sweden has exported some $300 million worth in the past three years...
...differences. In Harrisburg, polling indicated that women would be more friendly to the defense than men. They promised to be harsher in Gainesville, and the same as men in St. Paul. Following their predictive profiles, the defense looked in Harrisburg for working-class Lutherans, Roman Catholics and Brethren, a pacifist sect in the area. In Gainesville, defense lawyers tried to choose high-status Episcopal and Presbyterian professionals...
Stone is equally forceful in outrage or ridicule. About Nixon, Stone writes: In a realm of discourse in which words have lost all normal meaning, it is not surprising to hear that Nixon also told [C.L.] Sulzberger [of The New York Times], "I rate myself a deeply committed pacifist." Many men have been "committed" for less obvious lapses from reality...
...just people's frustration with the politics of a movement that has not yet succeeded that generates their appreciation? Is it that Dylan continues to sing in the comforting voice, however poetic, of the middle class white man? Does his message lie in the passivist, more than the pacifist strain in his music? Or does Dylan's appeal still lie in the undercurrent of moralism, the attractiveness of a message like that of "Blowin' in the Wind," the song with which he chose to begin the evening concert's second half? The one time Dylan attempted manifesto was two years...