Word: tocsins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hughes remained relatively cool under fire, the mass of his supporters--many of them Tocsin members--broke. In the Commentary article he tells of the disastrous loss of morale among his workers after October 22; the result, he says, was that the campaign fell completely apart during its last two weeks. The campaign, despite the poor returns (less than two per cent of the vote), was in some ways a success; still, the compelling implication of the campaign --and Tocsin's performance in it--is that peace politics is not up to making substantial criticisms of foreign or defense policy...
...Tocsin will not fulfill its initial promise until the leaders impose on the membership the realization that Tocsin's job is to remain a voice of intelligent radicalism even when no one is listening. If the membership continues to waver between exaltation and despair, Tocsin will move dispiritedly into the demonstrators' camp--where it would be on a small, second-rate picketing organization...
...Tocsin's Red Challenge...
...Tocsin's leaders face a nearly impossible job in toughening its intellectual fibre. For underlying the decision of many people to join the organization is anger not at vapidity and ineptitude in Washington, but at the fact that the government has the power to decide the fate of the human race. The peace movement really challenge institutions rather than policies. A past officer of the group has suggested that its goal is to "return" control of foreign policy to the people--although he was not clear as to when in the past such a system had existed. Hence the movement...
...Tocsin began conscious of the dangers of vagueness, Harvard's civil rights radicals seem actually to have based their movement on vagueness. And as their strength and influence have grown--especially during this past year--their attachment to a very dubious set of semi-ideas has hardened...