Word: conficting
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...employ a superstructure of sometimes infinite complexity resting on a few simple premises and motivations. Through an induced preoccupation with the superstructure rather than the foundation, consequences many times removed from their causes are made to combine almost chemically into a facade which distracts from and undercuts the basic confict, ultimately vanishing with great speed and leaving the conflict solved. The effect is that of an unforgivably mixed metaphor which on second glance--and, therefore, also on the glance of the subconscious--reduces itself to a gut consistency. Hence satisfaction...
...Conflict. Banda, a onetime Oxford undergraduate who shared the same Christ Church staircase with Sir Anthony Eden, is a devout Buddhist, is Buddhistically sure that everything is for the best in Ceylon's green world. "Conflict is very essential to life," he says. "But it must be confict that does not militate against a higher harmony above it. I have always felt that ultimate reconciliation was possible, and the people of this country have now made it possible for me to put my theories into practice...
...task of evaluating the record of a man like Joe McCarthy is difficult, especially before the dust of quieter years has settled over the controversy. With the confict between liberal and red-hunter still raging, William Buckley and L. Brent Bozell have undertaken what they would call an impartial and sober survey of the man and his beliefs. But the authors, because of their preconceptions, soon find themselves battling on the side of the Senator and reading into the record of the last four years the best of all possible meanings...
This is typical of a problem that is popping up all over the country, for publicly owned electric power plants are rapidly increasing in number and coming into confict with existing systems. Some consider this "the welcome hand of a Fair Deal"; others call it "specter of socialism." But all agree that Government's role in electricity production is expanding so greatly that it is taking over a new role in the economy...
...themselves, rather than as symbols, general opinion everywhere--the New Havon vote and the Vassar student's refusal of election are only recent examples--has reacted; now that Phi Beta Kappa, man must prove himself. This is generally true, although at New Haven it may be the old confict between brains and scholastic Dadaism. Let Mr. Broun and the N. Y. Evepost answer this; we are satisfied so long as our own Phi Beta Kappas wear their keys in their pockets...
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