Word: pacifists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United States is more likely to be forced into starting a war than the Soviet Union," A. J. Muste, a noted pacifist, asserted in a keynote address last night to a Harvard Fellowship of Reconciliation...
Happy, contented students are quiet students, and the Administration's policy toward undergraduates has always been pacifist. The violence of student riots shakes the gentleman tradition of Harvard to the core, and disturbs University Hall--especially the Deans, because Deans dislike noise...
...past ten years, the Rev. Maurice McCrackin, Presbyterian pastor of Cincinnati's St. Barnabas Church, has refused to pay all of his federal income tax -since 1955 he has not even filed a return. His defense: Christian principle. As a pacifist, he declines to contribute to armaments by paying taxes. Last week the feds came for Non-Taxpayer McCrackin...
...hours later he was ordered released anyway, pending a hearing. "You carried me in here, now carry me out," said McCrackin. "Aw, come on, man, be reasonable," said the Law. And Pacifist McCrackin got back on his feet and walked...
...minor characters each preserve the rugged uniqueness of the mountain people: Pablo, the guerilla leader, animal-like and cowardly, dulled with wine and inactivity; Pilar, his woman, who assumes command when he no longer cares; Anselmo, the old Pacifist, who is forced to kill to support the Republic...