Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...youth of America and the world it is our duty to make clear that any outcome of this war that divides the world into monstrous superstates under various leaderships will mean another titanic conflict, and within their lifetimes...
...Professors Kohn, Wild, and Buell are representative of the intelligent internationally-minded group which has urged a more effective international organization and an "adequate" curtailment of the sovereignty of all nations. Without this, they felt, and we still feel, that the world will be ripe for a third global conflict. But the other evening they put almost all their emphasis upon the role of power and "realism" in the post war settlement...
...Pearl Harbor taught us that military victory is only the opening phase of our job. First we must solve the old conflict which began long before World War 1, before the French Revolution, before the shots were fired at Lexington, and before the Revolutions of 1848; this conflict which has its origins in the liberal, revolutionary ideas of John Locke and on the other hand the reactionary counter-revolutionary attacks of those who have tried to cripple the growing influence of the common man. We must solve the conflict with modern guns and ships and planes. Then we must stand...
...could be equal to this man size job. And Spence Tracy, virility jutting from every mannerism and word, smoothly performs the operation. As a long-suffering fellow reporter, Tracy completely neutralizes La Hepburn's international and arty aspects and ends up in love with what's left. The personality conflict between the two begins at a Dodger ball game, made even funnier by a Hepburn who thought a squeeze play was a diplomatic mancuver, and ends on the wedding night, interrupted by a Hungarian refugee, who looked about as frustrated as Tracy might have been...
...attitudes are possible, however, towards the situation created: educators can simply give up, on the assumption the their function and obligation are suspended for the duration; or they can determine to preserve everything that does not conflict with an unstinted was effort...