Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over 2,000 years, a deep gulf between rich and poor had existed in Italy. Why had class conflict now hardened into its present menacing aspect? The answer, for Italy and everywhere, was that before The Machine poverty was suffered as inevitable; since The Machine's promise of prosperity, poverty is regarded (with Marx's prompting) as the result of a conspiracy...
...chain, one link leading to the next. Hegel's dialectic presented a more turbulent picture: every idea (thesis) has its opposite (antithesis) with which it struggles until they produce a third idea (synthesis); this in turn has its antithesis, and so on. Marx expressed history by putting class conflicts in the place of thesis and antithesis. The culminating conflict was that called forth by The Machine. The last synthesis, which would be unique because it would not contain its own negation, would be the classless society...
Hats Outside. The group interests of Los Angeles' promoters often conflict with their private interests. Last year the Chamber campaigned for more highways, to be financed by a boost in the gasoline tax. Oilmen who are members of the Chamber not only opposed the idea, they spent thousands to fight it. Chamber President Clarence Beesemyer is an oilman himself (vice president of General Petroleum Corp., a subsidiary of Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc.). But he helped the Chamber fight the program through the state legislature...
...Admitting that there is temptation everywhere, the picture questions whether anyone can be truly religious, and finally states that one can. The Sister Superior, after a fierce struggle with her passion, defeats it, and discovers a humility that she did not have before the experience in the mountains. The conflict is a real one, for every year the nuns can leave the order if they want...
...keep, although he would prefer to live peacefully with a little boy. The picture attains a focus of unusual moral and dramatic interest when a minister (Joe E. Brown) steals the dog and faces trial and jail rather than return him. But everything is comfortably fixed up before this conflict between legality and sentiment can seriously excite or embarrass the audience. Except for some ugly moments around the dog pit, and the irreducibly likable Mr. Brown, who plays it straight and sweet, the picture is a pathetic miss...