Word: pacifists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pike also called for a reconvening of the Nuremberg trials to punish U.S. war crimes in Vietnam. Claiming that he wasn't a pacifist, he did not condemn Viet Cong terrorism. "Freedom fighters have to be rough," he said...
Couching his pacifist message in Gallic irony, Giraudoux bandies about the question of whether the Trojans should pledge their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to hold onto Helen, the world's most beautiful woman. As with the role of Cleopatra, it is virtually impossible for any actress to live up to that kind of advance billing. Jennifer West fails abysmally by playing Helen as a dumb, dumb blonde, more waitress than temptress; far from launching a thousand ships, it appears doubtful whether she could pilot a coffee cup across a hash house...
Last spring, he turned down several lucrative professional offers to come to Harvard. "I was disappointed to find out that Harvard didn't have any intercollegiate boxing programs," he recalled, "but I didn't want to go to a place like Annapolis just for that. I'm a pacifist at heart...
Trying for Brecht but never being echt, the film is only a procession of skits, songs, dialogues and newsreels. The lack of story or order need not have been fatal; but the movie is inept even as psychodrama-or as pacifist propaganda. A Maoist girl (Glenda Jackson) quotes endlessly from the Chairman: "A revolution is an act of violence by which one class overthrows another." Then she avows, with straight face: "I believe in China's violent revolution, but I couldn't kick a nun." Sick jokes abound: "Saigon is the only city in the world where garbage...
Poling had an abiding hatred of war -he was gassed as a Y.M.C.A. volunteer during World War I, and his son Clark was one of the famed "four chaplains" who went to their deaths aboard the U.S.S. Dorchester in 1943 -but he was no pacifist. He urged U.S. entry into World War II, then and later was an ardent, vociferous foe of Communism, which he described as "the supreme threat" to the world...