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...watch television; she once confided to a friend that he had intercourse with her only about once every two months. Also during this time he hid his rifle, wrapped in a blanket, in the Paine garage. Marina knew it was there. But realizing that Ruth, a strong pacifist, would object, she said nothing about...
...problem is, as suggested above, that the ambiguities involved in these parallels seriously limit them, and could easily lead even a careful scholar toward a pseudo-analytic approach to history. Hughes recounts, for example, how one of his students, studying the life of an armaments expert with pacifist tendencies, could not understand why the expert developed a crippling block against completing the military research he was involved in. "The solution lay right before him," Hughes says. "For the student had quite unwittingly run up against a classic case of inner conflict. His protagonist's technical and military pride were locked...
...been friendly with Russians since 1944, it was not until 1958, when he received his cosmic clearance, that he began to spy. As he puts it to his attorney today, he chose to leak secrets to Moscow because he felt that by "informing a power of whose pacifist sentiments I was sure, I would assure peace...
...pacifist, Gustafson maintained that a policy of limited arms control would be more feasible than the government's present policy of general and complete disarmament. He avoided prolonged discussion of the political aspects of disarmament but did speculate that the Kennedy Administration is considering a reduction in arms production...
...Contrary Experience, by Herbert Read. A singular Englishman with a gift for plural and paradoxical living-he has been both a pacifist and a decorated soldier, an anarchist and a successful bureaucrat-British Critic Read tells the rich and readable story of his lives...