Word: pacifists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Divorced. Ralph Schoenman, 32, Brooklyn-born secretary to British Pacifist Bertrand Russell and organizer of last May's Stockholm circus "trial" that convicted the U.S. of "war crimes" in Viet Nam; by Susan Goodricke Schoenman, 25, his wife of five years; in Bournemouth, England. In granting the divorce on uncontested grounds of cruelty, the judge noted Schoenman's "sexual aberrations" and his habit of "refusing to wash or bathe except on very rare occasions...
Like an inverted pyramid, all pacifist literature rests upon a single point: as W. H. Auden put it, "We must love one another or die." In How I Won the War, Director Richard Lestersharpens the point pictorially but blunts it philosophically by focusing on a platoon of World War II tommies hellbent on a suicide mission-building an officers' cricket field behind enemy lines in North Africa...
Stanford Electrical Engineer Oswald Garrison Villard Jr., who considers himself almost as ardent a pacifist as his father, the famed former editor of the Nation, has long been engaged in secret work related to rocket propulsion and guidance in order to keep abreast of his main scholarly interest: upper-atmosphere engineering. "To know what is important in this field, you have to be in on the classified aspect of it," he says...
Patient Resistance. "The idea was mine," said Douglas, a pacifist in the early 1930s who saw heavy combat in his 50s in World War II as a Marine officer. Disturbed that the Viet Nam debate was dominated by "extremists on both sides," he began writing friends last summer, incorporated the committee on July 31, and helped to draft a policy statement that was edited in longhand by Eisenhower...
Headquartered in a noisy Lower East Side loft festooned with bare steam pipes and posters of burned Vietnamese children, the Mob is chaired by Yale-educated David Dellinger, 52, a smartly dressed, balding pacifist. Though he looks hardly more aggressive than Peter Sellers, Bellinger began his protest career during World War II by refusing to register for the draft, spent a total of three years in prison for his principled recalcitrance-and last week entered the cooler again, puffing a cigar, after his arrest at the Pentagon...