Word: tucker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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S.N.V.A. is the new formal name for the pacifist group which was formed is the University last fall, but has not been able to get the two faculty sponsors necessary for a University charter. Robert W. Tucker '53, speaking for the group's executive committee last night, said that Henry J. Cadbury, Hollis Professor of Divinity, had agreed to sponsor the group, Raphael Demos, professor of Philosophy, would also "probably agree...
...Tucker disclosed that it was the pacifists that withdrew from the Peace Council last week, and not the other way around as the Council reported...
...split became apparent, Tucker said, when the two factions couldn't agree on the issue of Soviet aggression. "We're interested in general policies, such as opposition to violence everywhere. They were interested in more singular objectives like demilitarization in mainly one country...
...constitution, the S.N.V.A. limits voting membership to those who have a personal "commitment to non-violence as a way of life." Tucker indicated that the members of the Peace Council faction were "not in harmony with this view...
...pianos. The music's substance was unclear--the themes undistinctive, the dissonances meaningless, and the two-piano arrangement not wholly successful. The piece appeared to be little more than long, scale passages, and the composer must have intended more than that. However, Piston and Tucker both played zealously, and it appeared that they, if no one else, knew exactly what was going...