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...view of many of the antiwar posters that adorn the sanctuary. "Right, that's good. Hey, Paul, let's stick that fist up. Right, higher, higher, a bit higher, really high. Great, that's good." The lights from the television make Paul squint and suddenly the quietly eloquent pacifist whose faith in people is innocent but not naive is transformed into some kind of squinty, fist-raised freak...
...military spending in general. "Viet Nam," said McGovern, "is just the most grievous manifestation of a world view that is based on what we're afraid of rather than what we stand for. I was a bomber pilot in World War II. I'm not a pacifist. I think we've now lost sight of the absolutely essential need for coexistence, even with countries with whom we don't agree." He has also championed the poor, argued for larger federal food-distribution programs and led the fight for internal reform of Democratic Party procedures...
...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...