Word: peacenik
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...Bush turn a sniveling France into a legitimate world political power with a good deal of authority. Jacques Chirac’s haughty disdain for the conflict, amplified by Bush’s failure to gain Security Council approval, has only fanned the flames of world-wide peacenik disapproval...
...professors running the gamut from war hawk to peacenik have continued to sound off since the war began—ranging from retired Brig. Gen. John Reppert, executive director for research at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, to Lecturer on History and Literature Timothy P. McCarthy ’93. Reppert advocates stronger military action in Iraq, while McCarthy is a vocal opponent...
...members faced an unusual choice of on-bus entertainment as they travelled back from the New York anti-war rally on Saturday. The bus driver, who some members believe was “probably pretty hostile” toward the anti-war movement, put on a video for the peacenik passengers. Settling back for some light entertainment, the Harvard protesters were dismayed to find that said driver’s choice was none other than a classic piece of “might is right” American cultural imperialism, Air Force One. After facing problems with the bus slowing...
...poor,” ) of striking presumptuousness. I have a copy of Keats’ poetry with a piece of hedge pressed in the back. Next to it, someone has written “From Keats’ grave” in spidery script. Who was the inept peacenik? Who the E.B. White critic? Who the Keats devotee? Whoever they are, I like to think we’re members of the same attenuated book club...
...Clinton administration actively campaigned to elect Barak. The current Bush administration, however, agreed to keep the "road map" off the table during Israel's election season. And that may explain why, as Israel went to the polls Tuesday for an election whose outcome is all but given, one bitter peacenik Israeli commentator observed that the only vote that really counts belongs to George Bush...