Word: pacifists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, expressions of anti-war sentiment in the media. Johnny Got His Gun, for example, is a brilliantly emotional anti-war novel written after World War I. Now, in the face of the continuing Indochina War, New Left novelists sense a receptive audience and the antiwar literature is growing. Pacifist and radical filmmakers, too, have been busy. though their products do not reach a large audience. Only one major American film. The Ballad of the Green Berets, has been made about the Vietnam war, and its message follows the traditional shoot-em-up outline of cowboy and Indian movies...
...moved to Flagstaff, Ariz., where he attended nearby Northern Arizona University. His first teaching job was in a one-room school on an Apache reservation in Pistol Creek. After Army Air Corps service, he returned to teaching, then took off four years to run West Coast operations of the pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation. He joined the California Department of Education...
...campaign has been muddied by innuendo. Riles accuses Rafferty of inflaming white fears in communities under court orders to integrate their schools. Right-wing literature, which Rafferty repudiates, has sought to link Riles with Communists, chiefly because of his work with the pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation during the 1950s...
...connected with the Communist Party) and Social Critic Nat Hentoff (for affiliation with the Socialist Workers Party, S.D.S. and the Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Viet Nam). The list also contained the names of many self-proclaimed radicals, among them Yippie Founder Abbie Hoffman, Pacifist David Dellinger, Black Panther National Chairman Bobby Scale and Black Panther Fred Hampton (although he was slain in a Chicago police raid in December...
...wave of bombings, kidnapings and cop-killings to an obsession with Che's emphasis on immediate, almost mindless action. Others note that it is difficult to determine whether Che is actually a moving force or merely a symbol of a mood. Nobel-prizewinning Biologist George Wald, a staunch pacifist who is one of Harvard's most popular teachers, maintains that for all its magic, Che's memory "is embalmed in a wonderful matrix of ignorance." London mail-order companies report that most orders for Che posters are now coming from teen-age girls who find his unkempt...