Word: pacifists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...KILLING was not an important movie, but it was a good genre piece. Encouragingly, Kubrick's career showed growth in areas where this crime flick was weakest. Paths of Glory, his next, was one of the best American films of the fifties. Though it's somehow acquired a treacly pacifist reputation, it's actually World War I attrition portrayed by a man who could back wars--were they not all fought so stupidly. Kubrick took a single incident, a suicide mission commanded from afar by an ambitious martinet, and revealed 1917 savagery in microcosm: fixed infantry moving against armed fortifications...
Though father and son argued about the war in the mid-'60s, like many other fathers and sons, Elia gradually came to accept and even share Chris' passionate opposition. Indeed, Chris sees a piece of himself in the character of Michael, the angry pacifist in Elia's new novel, The Assassins (TIME, Feb. 14). "I think this war is a disease and a sickness," Chris says, "and people will look back on this movie and say, That...
Several of the ten churches are on record against the Viet Nam War, others have engaged in active opposition to it, and one-the Church of the Brethren-is avowedly pacifist. Without accusing them of hypocrisy, the report chides church investors for failing to consider the moral implications of military-industrial investments, and for inadvertently enjoying the fruits of "war profiteering." The report objects less to the dollar total of church support to such industries (tiny in relation to the companies' $10 billion military sales) than to the "moral aura of legitimacy" that it provides...
...pacifist Church of the Brethren, where obvious military investments have always been avoided, Treasurer Robert Greiner questioned the report's blackballing of standard blue chips like A.T. &T. (5.5% military sales, principally the Safeguard ballistic missile system and Nike Hercules missile). "You can't get out of everything," Greiner said. "To be a purist, you could hardly stay in the U.S." Even worse conflicts will probably be raised when the Corporate Information Center starts evaluating industries for their overall "purity," considering such factors as their consumer policies, minority-hiring practices and polluting of the environment. What...
...have been overestimating the F.T.A.'s appeal. In Iwakuni, one-third of the G.l.s in a large gymnasium walked out before the show was over, apparently bored. The Japanese seemed somewhat disenchanted by Jane's transformation, as one weekly put it, "from a scandal actress to a pacifist." One fan who had expected to see Barbarella onstage lamented: "She looks too undistinguished and sounds too shrill...