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...Juan's teachings can be analyzed as a melange of Zen, Sufism, the dream control of Tibetan Buddhism, and other disciplines. But this essentially Eastern message is transmitted by a member of the fierce Yaquis of northern Mexico, the only unconquered tribe of North America. Don Juan is no pacifist and no vegetarian--he is a warrior. The natural world of predator and prey is his pantheon: the cactus, rattlesnake, coyote, mountain lion--all of which are equal to man. Perhaps most Western of all, Don Juan says that he belongs to no social group. He is the supreme individual...
...Christian Science Monitor and the Sunday Times, and fumes about Mr. Nixon's latest imbecilities ("Well, what do you think about our current President?" she rejoined, after I had said that maybe things weren't going downhill as feel as she seemed to think). She is an adamant pacifist ("I've lived through five wars," she says, "and not one of them has done any good for more than a few months, as far as I can see"), and she believes that the United Nations, if strengthened, could be a way of achieving world peace if only national leaders would...
...Miss Tolstoy at her home in Valley Cottage, N.Y., "and father came into the room, and he stood there with his hands inside the belt of his blouse, and he said, 'What's that? It isn't badly written.' He was a vegetarian and a pacifist, but when a mosquito sat on the head of Chertkov [one of Tolstoy's followers], father killed it without a thought. Chertkov turned to him and said, 'Oh, how could you do that, to take the life of an innocent mosquito?' All of us roared with laughter...
...business--editor Dede Allen, photographer Miroslav Ondricek, musician Glenn Gould, and they all do as well as can be done with craft that lacks original inspiration. And the simplification of the story, and its screen enactment by a talented ensemble, result in as hard-driving a simple-minded pacifist's statement as the novel...
...declared: "I'm not overawed by generals like some politicians who've never been in service." Yet he insists that his alternative national defense posture provides for basic U.S. security and that he would not shrink from using military force if necessary. "I'm not a pacifist," he says. "If we confront another Hitler or a clear threat to our national interests, I'd respond with power. It's a dangerous world, and some people only understand force...