Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...school -- "Angel Street" and "Ladies in Retirement" are others. Like them, it is concerned with the psychological fascinations of foul play in a secluded house in Victorian England. The old ladies, three of 'em, are boarders in a rooming house, each passing away her last few years alone. A conflict of personalities between the sadistic, half-crazed Agatha Payne and her high-strung, fragile neighbor, May Beringer, provides the substance of the drama. Starting slowly, the play generates suspense in an ever-heightening increase in tension, without benefit of creaky floorboards and family ghosts. And when it has reached...
Other lectures in the series will be: "Conflict of Laws and International Conventions", by Dr. Maria M. Schoch, Friday, February 27, at 4.30 o'clock; "Hearsay and the Proposed Code of Evidence", by Edmund M. Morgan, Royall Professor of Law and Acting Dean, on Wednesday, March 4, at 4.30 o'clock; "Counsel and Court in Constitutional Law", by Paul A. Freund, Professor of Law, on Wednesday, March 11, at 4.30 o'clock; "Some Aspects, of Statutory Limitation of Liability in Admiralty", by Eldon R. James, Professor of Law and Librarian, Thursday, March 19, at 4.30 o'clock; and "Principles...
...seven new students three were prevented from reaching Harvard by the world conflict. One Freshman comes from China, another from the Dutch East Indies, and a third arrived from Humania England and South America. The other four were delayed by such necessities as defense jobs...
...something more like a love feast than a conflict of wills, 18 malleable members of the New York Film Critics elected their 1941 cinema "bests" in less time than it takes to run off a double feature and a couple of shorts...
Robert Clurman's "First Voyage" is a clumsily conceived and haltingly executed tale of character conflict among four neurotic sailors. Containing a few excellent descriptive passages; it fails generally to get anything across, for psychological drama is fostered by change and development in the characters and mood which here remain static. The motivating secrets with which the men enter upon the scene are still secrets when they leave, and the reader refuses to absorb the mood when he cannot understand its source. This morbid flavor of the 'twenties, without the disillusioned bitterness toward mankind which produced it, is meaningless...