Word: pacifists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...friend, Marcus Maudsley, uses him as a plaything--one with macabre attractions, to be sure. Leo, the orphaned son of a shabby-genteel pacifist and book-collector, is notorious at his school only because of his black magic. There is no real affection present in the relationship; a thick oil of politeness surrounds the entire Maudsley family. The Maudsleys test each other aesthetically rather than touch and exchange emotions or ideas...
Died. Henry Fitz Gerald Heard, 81, novelist, philosopher and member of the fraternity of pacifist intellectuals that included Aldous Huxley and Bertrand Russell; in Santa Monica, Calif. Though he once declared that "words are at the end of their tether; their elasticity is worn out," the British expatriate was a most prolific writer. As H.F. Heard, he turned out first-rate detective stories (A Taste for Honey) and Orwellian chillers (The Great Fog). As Gerald Heard, he wrote such scholarly works on philosophy and religion as A Dialogue in the Desert and The Ascent of Humanity...
...summer issue of Environmental Quality magazine. Last week he delivered his magnum opus, a poem cycle set to Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals, which was played by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl. As the music soared, Henry versed about news-wise kangaroos, pacifist elephants, and hens and roosters who have been brutalized by technology...
...Peter O'Toole has a nice time in Murphy's War, carrying on at full cry against a German submarine patrolling a South American river in the waning days of World War II. Sian Phillips (Mrs. O'Toole) is on hand to play a pacifist nurse, and the repartee between husband and wife is snappy, affectionate and diverting. That is rather more than can be said for the rest of the movie. William Holden turns in an excellent performance in Wild Rovers as an agile but aging cowboy who robs a bank with his young buddy (Ryan...
...this same school can be found considerable work by Robert Bly, 44, a Harvardman, pacifist and founder of a poetry periodical devoted to new verse and progressively called The Fifties, The Sixties, The Seventies. Ely's The Teeth-Mother Naked At Last is a long, savage, sometimes murky lament against the horrors of the Viet...