Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Neill employed the classical plot as a framework in which he could examine dramatically the suppressed guilt he saw in the Puritan mind. The murder and desire for revenge that divides the austere Mannon family into two camps is also the conflict between Puritanical repression and the open sensuality of the foreigner. Except for details of place and time, O'Neill has not had to change Aeschylus' story at all: the Trojan War has become the Civil War, and Agemmemnon is now the victorious General Ezra Mannon...
...their own guilt, and Orin, who is played superbly by Michael Redgrave, commits suicide himself, while Lavinia, played by Rosalind Russell with what is probably the best acting of her career, retires to the Mannon mansion to spend the rest of her life suffering for her ancestors' misdoings. The conflict of the picture is seen complete in Lavinia's mind, for she, first a Puritanical Mannon, becomes more and more like her mother, although she finally rejects her last chance of marriage...
When gunfire began crackling in Costa Rica's southern mountains two weeks ago, Latin Americans labeled the uprising another small-scale civil war. Last week they knew better. What had started as a purely local conflict between rival political factions threatened to involve all Central America...
President Conant predicted a "very long period of armed truce with Russia." "We are in for years of this conflict," he said, "and we had better make up our minds...
...which has begun to sag and crack along one corner; the women are fully as eager to bring in electric current. They can't afford both in the same year. Grandfather yields to the women; and when he dies, that fall, the house is still unmended. This little conflict between fundamental repair and labor-saving technology becomes a powerful, compassionate image of the plight of modern...