Word: pacifistically
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...that, as Stoppard says, is a thought. James Joyce as I knew James Joyce, in Zurich in 1918: a myopic drunken Irishman; bloody pacifist. Or Lenin, a ripple in the seemingly endless stream of refugees and cafe plotters, writing Imperialism in the public library. Lenin as I knew Lenin. The Lenin I knew, or if memory serves, Vladimir Illyich Ulyanov: short, balding, desperate to lead the revolution finally taking place in Russia. A snowball in hell-wants to turn the civilized world into a standing committee of workers' deputies. Tom Stoppard's brilliant play Travesties opens with a dark Flander...
...emigrated from Russia, received a Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia in 1932, by which time he had gained a reputation in radical circles as a complex and formidable thinker. Dos Passos, the illegitimate son of a corporate lawyer who refused to acknowledge him until he was fourteen, was a pacifist who was revolted by his experiences in the trenches of World War I. Radicals praised Dos Passos as the greatest American novelist of the age for his naturalistic writing and attention to social evils. James Burnham, an aristocratic graduate of Princeton, was a coldly analytical dialectician who became a leader...
...prevail in Joey. He goes out to seek revenge for an attempt on his brother's life, but when the opportunity actually arises, Joey says, "We're not those kind of men/It's peace and quiet that we need/To go back to work again." Which sounds quite romantic and pacifist, but in context is saying simply that mob warfare is a poor atmosphere in which to conduct the business of gambing and numbers-running. Upon his release from prison, "He tried to find a way back in/To the life he'd left behind," but this is not Frank Sinatra coming...
...voluminous Life. Biographer Ronald Clark presents the full range of Russell's behavior that would not do: the grandson of a former Prime Minister, standing for Parliament in 1907 as the first candidate of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies; going to prison for pacifist activities during World War I; and leaving a wife behind in England in 1921 while he went to China for a year with another woman -Dora Black, the future second...
Exasperated by the BNP's pacifist methods of resistence, a younger set of Basques formed this new resistance organization. They profess to share the objectives and ultimate goals of the BNP, but differ tactically from the parent party. ETA has claimed credit for several assassinations including that of Spanish Premier Luis Carrero Blanco in Madrid in December of 1973. There are several small revolutionary groups in Spain at this time and it is difficult to tell exactly how many acts of violence ETA has been responsible for over the past five years. It is unlikely that they have perpetrated...