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Crusading Pacifist. Born and brought up in conservative upstate New York, Eastman could trace his ancestry to Mayflower days. Both his parents were Congregational ministers. But as he describes his childhood in an earlier book, Enjoyment of Living, he became imbued with the notion that all repressions must be cast off and life lived with absolute freedom. Settling in New York City, he was made editor in 1912 of the influential radical magazine, the Masses, set about upgrading the dowdy journal with incendiary proposals for revolutionizing the American way of life (some of the proposals, like women's suffrage...
...manner authorized by the law, and may the Lord have mercy on your soul!" The abolition of the death penalty was carried in the House of Commons last week by a vote of 355 to 170.*The bill was a "private member's motion," introduced by Pacifist Sydney Silverman, 69, a Labor M.P. who has fought against the gallows for nearly 30 years. The Conservative Party in the past has opposed abolition, but much support for the bill came from such Tory chiefs as Iain Macleod, Sir Derek Walker-Smith and ex-Home Secretary Henry Brooke. And the voting...
...letter written early this month, Bertrand Russell, the British pacifist philosopher, praised the Movement and authorized an endorsement to be used over his name...
This week the show profiled one of Saudek's added starters, Mary S. McDowell, a Brooklyn schoolteacher who lost her job in 1917 because she refused to sign a loyalty oath or do Red Cross work. She was a Quaker and a pacifist and she knew what she believed, even though her hope for marriage had ended when a boy who loved her died in France. Of the two plays so far, this one was somewhat the better, largely because Rosemary Harris was so gently formidable as an embodiment of unbreakable principle...
...public relations. "Instead of a dead hero we've got a live coward!" The situation presents obvious opportunities, and before he succumbs to a cynical conclusion Chayefsky takes some of them firmly in hand. He writes a couple of smartingly satiric scenes and puts together some pretty shrewd pacifist repartee. Naval officer proudly: "He was the first dead man on Omaha Beach!" Civilian innocently: "Was there a contest?" But Chayefsky dissipates the main force of his satire by chasing the main chance for commercial success...