Word: wars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Glory! Hallelujah!", described by its author, A. M. Barlow, as a Civil War "parable play," explores the nature of war and its effects on the human spirit...
...SITTING ROOM. This is Director Richard Lester's second surrealistic attack on the homicidal excesses of the military; it makes his first aggressive stab against war (How I Won the War) look like a warm-up exercise...
Robert Breshnahan, a member of the SMC steering committee, tried to clarify this position later. "The vast majority of M. I. T. students support the anti-war movement, and are opposed to M. I. T.'s complicity with the war. The NAC's projected tactics alienate this base of support, rather than enlist it against M. I. T.'s war research," he said...
...Washington uncomfortable. What has been equally impressive, in my view, has been the will-ingness of the Center establishment (to speak in the foolishly fashionable idiom) to sponsor research which by no stretch of any imagination can have policy implications. Will you believe that the Center-our nefarious, war-mongering running dog of capitalism Center-in 1967 sponsored a conference in Kenya on cultural relations between East Africa and Southeast Asia in pre-colonial times? In case Hyland should wonder, pre-colonial here means pre-1500 A. D. And the Ford Foundation paid...
...placed there. Any human pretensions or illusions they may have borne are gnawed at and peeled away until they are reduced to the level of pure animalism which is their reality. Clouzot had explored this Bunclesque notion of human degradation in Le Corbeau, a film be made during the war, in which a series of anonymous letters written to the residents of a small provincial town lead them to suspect and maliciously attack one another. The Nazis used the film to demoralize the French and many French critics later attacked the film for its anti-French sentiments. But these criticisms...