Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that it is very desirable to print the most important lectures delivered at the University, and I should like to suggest that the printing of lectures would be a great step in bringing together the two fields of activity: research and teaching, as well as in solving the superficial conflict arising from the two tasks of a University professor. Moreover, is it not worth stressing the fact that University teaching--differing in this respect from College instruction--ought to be accompanied by research? This, however, is not always possible on account of the heavy teaching load that a University professor...
Nevertheless when war broke out, and especially when Poland fell and the conflict became a one-front affair, Allied practice followed Liddell Hart theory closely. The dropping of War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha, a faithful disciple of Captain Liddell Hart, was supposed to presage an Allied swing to the offensive. But up until last week the Allied High Command had shown no signs of turning away from Liddell Hart orthodoxy. And last week, in a North American Newspaper Alliance dispatch, the Captain himself showed that nothing in the war's first half-year had changed his mind. His thoughts...
...acting version is far more dramatic -the first half, indeed, is often extremely exciting theatre. But the new version is also much more romantic, and bulging with high ethical conflicts. One seems valid: the struggle in Rawlings between the idealism that made him take on a sickening job, and the nausea induced by the job itself. The other conflict-love v. duty-is old stage twaddle which Adapter Glazer could not bring to life. Despite its bold beginning, the love affair is flimsy, vaporous, unreal, nearly sinks the play. Only eloquent rhetoric holds the second half of The Fifth Column...
Until Hitler has organized Russian production and transportation sufficiently for Italy to benefit, there is little chance that Mussolini will decide to enter the conflict...
...English estate and the serpentine behavior of mating swans. Finest and most ambitious story is the title-piece. The crazy hunter is a defective gelding. Over the issue of his life or destruction, oppositions of a mother, a father, a daughter, come to a head in a conflict of almost mythical cruelty and stature, described with meticulous and searching dread...