Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will not kill the liberal tradition at Harvard, he stated. "Of course, preparation for the conflict is our first concern, but the draft-system encourages a student to regard his studies as his first duty until he is called. A liberally trained man will eventually make a better officer...
Since the discontinuation of "There Shall Be No Night," Lillian Hellman's "Watch on the Rhine" is now the only successful war play that the American theatre has produced. It alone out of the many that have been written, has reduced the world conflict into terms that are both comprehensible and acceptable to the average American. Miss Hellman does not represent this struggle as one of economic and social organizations. There is no discussion of idealistic concepts of the world as it should be. Instead the author has presented the more fundamental battle between the two ways of life...
...Feuchtwanger has for years been discussing one of the touchiest of age-old issues-the Jewish problem. The nub of this problem is the never-ending tug-of-war in the Semitic mind between nationalism (atavistic) and internationalism (idealistic)-a nub made spiny with the misunderstandings that this cryptic conflict causes in whatever alien community it takes place. Author Feuchtwanger has embodied this struggle in the character of First-Century Jewish Historian Flavius Josephus (The Jewish War), historical hero of the fictional trilogy of which Josephus and the Emperor is volume three...
...recognize that the present conflict is a great emergency where all men of character must stand together united," they informed General Douglas MacArthur. "We will disregard differences in religion between Christian, Filipino, Mohammedan or pagan. ... To all of this we have sworn on the Koran...
...Bulldog, however, were merely changing the schedule of events so that it would not conflict with a vacation and leave Yale without the moral support it needed for its encounter with the Crimson hoopsters...