Word: pacifists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...simple British general, reduces his defenses, and finally takes him into her camp as a lifetime ally. In Huxley's The Farcical History of Richard Greenow, a brilliant young man is possessed of a sister personality. When he isn't functioning as himself, Richard Greenow, a fighting pacifist, he is operating as Pearl Bellairs, a violently patriotic war propagandist-all of which permits Author Huxley to aim his wit at two political extremes and much that is in between...
...came in the middle of his senior year, and permanently interrupted his formal education. Even before the war, Read had begun to think in pacifist terms, and it was only a sense of moral obligation that helped him overcome his qualms. "I regarded the war as a conflict between rival imperial powers," he wrote, "which would bring destruction to the peoples engaged." He accepted a commission...
...plot of Escapade is a whips about a Pacifist whose three sons flee boarding school, steal a plane, and fly to Geneva with an adolescents' peace petition. The play proves above all that children must be seen if the audience is going to hear abut them all evening. Icarus, the eldest son, is constantly discussed but is never on the stage. By description, he seems so colorful that it is curious for playwright Roger MacDougall to waste time with the boy's parents...
Died. Hastings William Sackville Russell, 64, twelfth Duke of Bedford and one of Britain's richest men (his fortune was once estimated at $14 million); of a shotgun wound, apparently accidental, while hunting alone on his 12,000-acre Devon estate. An eccentric, fuzzy-minded pacifist, Bedford could, and often did, switch causes at the drop of an ideal. Having had enough of Bedford's muddled diatribes, the House of Lords once resolved that "the noble Duke no longer be heard." Ill at ease with most people, he often preferred the company of deer, bison and parakeets...
Reuter was a Prussian who became a pacifist. He was a Socialist who knew what Communism was about, because he had once been a Communist. Fighting on the Russian front in World War I, he was wounded and captured by the Czar's army. They set him to work in the coal mines, south of Moscow. The Red Revolution freed him, and Nikolai Lenin himself made Reuter a commissar in the new U.S.S.R. His boss in the Commissariat of Nationalities was Joseph Stalin, whom he afterwards dismissed as a man with "the mind of a sergeant...