Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concerns Mitchell's effort to run a haven for oppressed bushmen on the same island that holds a Mature plantation. Inevitably, both in logic and plot, the interests conflict. Mature comes on the scene, and in his inimitable way appeases the very appeasable daughter of the south-sea utopian...
...understood, as well as heard, the Gissimo. Official circles were loud with rumors that Winston Churchill, who was at last paying considerable attention to his critics (see p. 27), would shortly move to increase India's autonomy. That was a job which, owing to the Hindu-Moslem conflict in India, as well as to Tory opposition at home, would call for real statesmanship. But, after the Gissimo's words, it seemed that Britain might tackle...
Called The Island God, it told a fantastic, metaphysical story, a conflict between an ancient Greek god and a modern castaway on a Mediterranean isle. In the final scene, the castaway discovers the grotesque truth: the god fears him, knowing that the man's faith in him is all that keeps the god alive. Defiantly the man shatters the god's sacred altar, forcing the god to destroy him and, in so doing, to destroy himself. The opera had so little drama in it, such paucity of stage movement, that New York Herald Tribune Critic Virgil Thomson labeled...
...delirium of malaria may recur for many years. Malaria can be treated by constant doses of quinine, and a newer drug, stabrine. But there is no immunization against malaria. Warned Dr. Meleney: "We may expect a tremendous morbidity and mortality from malaria in the armed forces during the present conflict...
Sorokin pointed out that he did not see any real basis for any serious conflict between the fundamental interests of the United States and Russia. "Both of them are continents," he said. "Both of them do not need a serious territorial expansion at the cost of the other country. Their enemies are the same, beginning with Japan. Strange to say, even their psychology is either similar or supplementary...