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...capitalism and class, coupled with a stinging indictment of contemporary Socialists: "One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words 'Socialism' and 'Communism' draw toward them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist and feminist in England." Orwell not only sensed the distaste that unemployed miners would feel for such studied eccentricities, he shared the feeling. He also perceived something that was to reverberate in political writings for half a century: ascendant leftist theories threatened to replace one form of tyranny with another...
...program, run by a Christian pacifist group which advocates communal living, provided 1000 meals a day and took in about 20 homeless individuals, Hennessey explains...
While players advised their respective leaders throughout the developing scenario, the commanders made the actual choices. To expedite the game, the leader's decisions frequently went against the recommendations of the generally pacifist group...
...President had arrived at 12:12 p.m. At 1 p.m. exactly the Senate passed the declaration of war, 82-to-0. The House received with a whoop the identical Senate bill. The vote: 388-to-1. The lone dissenter was Miss Jeannette Rankin, Montana Republican, grey-haired pacifist who sat with a bewildered smile, muttering over & over that this might be a Roosevelt trick...
...Cornet? Mrs. Roberts? How long before the world is treated to a revival of Moby Dick, starring Victoria Principal as Captain Alice and ubiquitous Meryl Streep as the passionate yet complex crew? Or Steven Spielberg's E.T.T.E.? Or Richard Attenborough's epic film biography of the Indian pacifist Blandhi...