Word: clashes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Summing up, Judge Douglas put the issue in a way that made many a newspaperman cringe. Said he: "We have here a case which is a clash between the code of the newspaper fraternity and the law of the land as I conceive it to be." Most members of the fraternity could not help feeling that the code, at least in this case, was spattered by some embarrassing stains...
...goes to considerable lengths to outline the ideological antecedents of much New Deal legislation. Nevertheless, the argumentation so carefully reported in the volume's chapters on agricultural, industrial, financial, conservation, labor and relief policies seems very much spur-of-the-moment philosophy. Schlesinger does manage to create one plausible clash of ideologies in explaining the New Deal: "The Tennessee Valley Authority ... became another battlefield in the struggle which divided the early New Deal--the struggle between the social planners, who thought in terms of an organic economy and a managed society; and the neo-Brandeisians, who thought in terms...
...appeasement, of a Munich, if you please, in the face of great decisions which may determine the future of the entire Arabian peninsula, perhaps of the whole Western World, centering in arid Iraq, cradle of civilization, womb of nationalism, cocoon of Communism's conspiratorial caprices, where the stupendous clash of incompatible ideologies generates a maelstrom of incredible tautological complexity which, if only time would allow, I would be delighted to analyze down to the most delicate detail, but with the grader's forbearance I shall now go on to the next question...
...gentle; he chooses a quiet theme and carefully understates it to the threshold of inaudibility. In his first novel, The Poorhouse Fair, he picks the bones of some old people's lives in whispers. Yet Poorhouse is less concerned with old age than with the clash between the bloodless ideal of social perfectibility and the pungent humanity of the old Adam. On this subject Author Updike's whispers are sibilant with meaning...
...with less reason. The Young Republican Club remains the hotbed of personal spite and political pettiness that has characterized it for lo, these many years. And the Student Council would appear to be warming up to a nasty little fight for officers--again, it would seem, more a clash of personalities than of issues...