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That same day, before the Fellowship of Reconciliation, a pacifist group formed in 1915, McCarthy was back among more sympathetic constituents. In a thoughtful speech discussing the nation's evolution toward what he termed "lifeless consumer society," he pleaded for "personalism and reason and spiritual renewal...
Died. Sir Herbert Read, 74, poet, critic and catholic thinker; of cancer; in Stonegrave, England. An outspoken pacifist prior to World War I, Read nonetheless joined the Royal Army in 1915, won the Distinguished Service Order and Military Cross for heroism in the trenches. He preferred the romantic poets when everyone from Hemingway to T. S. Eliot was joining the Lost Generation, and explained abstract art when its meaning eluded many...
...April, however, the paper declared, "Hereafter the CRIMSON will print no more communications of a pacifist nature." On Friday, April 6, the United States declared war on Germany. President Lowell immediately offered the government full use of University facilities...
...such an electric climate, anti-war feelings didn't prosper. The Harvard Pacifist Association counted 14 pious members, all Quakers and Jehovah's Witnesses. Even they did their best to contribute, as conscience and beliefs would allow--the CRIMSON noted with grudging approval, "They have offered themselves as subjects for study to psychologists who have been invited to attend their meetings...
...grind a metaphor to dust faster than Godard, and in this pacifist fable, he grinds out dozens of familiar antiwar gambits. But this time the man ner enhances the material, and man ages to prove Borges' maxim correct...