Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Only twice was there a feeling of excitement, and neither time it spring from an idea or suggestion central to the question of . The excitement was not intellectual--as perhaps it be in a meeting of this nature. manifested itself first in a feeling sheer anger when a man threw an at Charles Coryell, who had just in defense of Linus Pauling; in exultant release when Seeger up to lead the group through a of folk-songs...
...question was given greatest emphasis when Steve Allen launched into a protracted fund-raising "rou- tine." "Who will give one hundred dollars for peace?" Allen asked, "those people willing to contribute please raise their hands." Then, attempting to collect donations from $50 to $1.00, he teased the crowd with such phrases eas "a city of this affluence," "an audience as intelligent as this," and "show your interest in peace...
...result of the issue in question, disarmament rallics are vastly different from comparable social protest meeting in the '30's and early '40's. When Bob Hope, in 1937, led a rally for unemployed longshoremen, spectators were immediately able to go out and do something. If they contributed money, as they must have, the results were easily imaginable: instead of one grubby meal a day, some longshoreman would have three squares and a decent place to sleep. If public pressures were strong enough, management would have to allow the long-shoremen to unionize: the machinations of a ship company...
...anti-fascist rallies of the early 40's were, in philosophical implication, far closer to meetings protesting the arms race. In both cases the obvious danger was widespread destruction, the explicit question was war. But a man attending meetings of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies was ready to fight not abstain; it was clear what the government should do. Horrified by Nazi conquests, he knew that neutrality was an impossible position, that Lend-Lease was essential to prevent Europe from being altogether crushed. In this case, the desire was to lash out at a nation...
When Parliament was debating Africa, he recalled, "the cardinal question was whether we should be Christianized before civilized or civilized before Christianized...all the troubles we have in the African world were started by these do-gooders...