Word: peacenik
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...basic reason for the vets' postwar distress is that they were not allowed to win the war. The media provided the ammunition (albeit defective) that the peacenik militants used to label our men baby killers and monsters of all kinds. There was little or no mention by the press and TV of enemy atrocities, which were commonplace, or defeats (Tet). The war was probably journalism's lowest point...
...making this reformulation? A handful of liberal theologians? Rifkin himself admits the change is virtually unnoticed. One spectacular example is Billy Graham's conversion from nuke-the-Russian-Antichrist-cold-warrior to disarmament-peacenik-one-worlder, but Graham knows he is in a very small minority. Is the Full Gospel Businessmen's Fellowship likely to abandon the profit margin for a few more trees and whales just because Rifkin thinks the charismatics should pick up this redefinition as their marching banner? If anything, the Pentecostal revival is a reaction against the new values, against social innovations and moral liberalizations...
When these same construction workers try to bury a monkey wrench in some peacenik's head, they're trying to expel some frustrated sexual energy, and it comes out in pure class hatred. They see an affluent generation of college kids who never had to make any money on their own, and whose education, in fact, the workers themselves are paying for. They see these kids screaming about how hard life is, and the workers are furious. As far as they can tell, they certainly wouldn't be where they are now if they had had a chance...
...winner's 6,000 in a district with 20,000 potential voters. The results were disappointing for Smith who had hoped against hope to get into the runoff, but he was not disillusioned. "For a man with my reputation, a Communist, a damn nigger lover, a radical and a peacenik, I did damn well," Smith beamed as he watched the results trickle in on the television at his home--campaign headquarters for the last three months...
...denunciation scene. French Novelist Simone de Beauvoir glittered in a silver lame blouse, while Playwright Peter Weiss, who had worn a corduroy jacket all week, donned a grey, striped business suit for the occasion. But all the pomp and ceremony could not add one bit of suspense to the peacenik extravaganza-or respectability to the "verdict." After nine days of canned and Kafkaesque testimony by Russell's loyal witnesses, Tribunal President Jean-Paul Sartre declared that the U.S. had been found guilty of a vast catalogue of "war crimes" in Viet Nam, including "massive, systematic and deliberate" bombing...