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Caleb Foote ’39, former managing editor of the Harvard Crimson who later became a pacifist organizer and notable advocate for bail reform, died of a blood infection on March 4 in Santa Rosa, California. He was 88 years old. A New England native, Foote was born in Cambridge and attended Harvard College from 1935 to 1939. Two years later, he received his masters degree in economics from Columbia University. At Harvard, Foote lived in Whigglesworth his freshman year and in Eliot House, where he was elected to the House Committee. As a sophomore, he ran for Student...
...speech that allows citizens to criticize the military. “I think the people who often give the military grief neglect that the army is doing everything for that one person who is condemning it,” she says. Waterman says that she would consider herself a pacifist. At the same time, she says she believes that war can be necessary as “the price of freedom.” It’s a trite phrase, she says, but she thinks there is truth in it.IN FULL REGALIA Waterman’s father flies...
...lack of space for all three aspects of auditioning constantly irritates Hanley.“We got a complaint,” he says one night. He moved some of his auditions out to a nearby landing, and an HRDC staff member yelled at his crew. Ever the pacifist Hanley says of the event, “Hey, I’ll sacrifice getting yelled at for the fact of being fair to the actors themselves. But it’s not the [HRDC] students’ fault at all” that they have to strictly regulate...
...Gunsmoke led the TV stampede of "adult westerns." Dillon might be the sage of the sagebrush, musing on man's weakness for violence, but since every show begins with his gunning down a bad guy, we know that this is the same old (Testament) stuff, with a little sweet pacifist palaver mixed...
...nonviolenceconvinces me that he would abhor all the bloodshed and strife that besiege America today. Murderous gangs, violent disrespect for women and cruelty to animals would be anathema to King. No black or white civil rights activist in the U.S. has filled King's void. Fortunately, his pacifist ideology profoundly influenced South Africa's social-justice icons Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu. BRIEN COMERFORD Glenview...