Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the decision not to publish the report had been made by Secretary of State George Marshall. Marshall, it was said, had not yet fully subscribed to the report's conclusions and recommendations. He believed that publication at this time would only fan the fires of U.S.-Soviet conflict. And he was afraid that publication would jeopardize congressional approval of European aid, which, in George Marshall's diplomatic strategy, has priority. In short, Asia must wait...
...eternal struggle of good and evil, the major theme of both works, provides him with a wonderful opportunity for an objectification of his most intense mystical passions. The idea of a series of paintings allows Blake to produce a sort of drama with his brush, a drama whose conflict ends in a religious purgation of evil. The resolution is also joyous and lively, for in the last of the Job series the harps and horns are taken down from the trees, and the books are thrown aside...
Command Decision is hard-hitting theater, full of mailed conflict and scrappy talk. What it hits hardest, however, is all sentimental attitudes toward war, all evasions of how damnable it can be, all attempts to break it up neatly into so many parts hell and so many parts humanitarianism. But there is nothing doctrinaire or diagrammatic about the play. Playwright Haines (himself an Air Forces veteran) writes something that could easily have happened; and his characters are people, not mere points of view...
...whole picture of your miseries. In your distress you came to me. Answering your appeal, I accept the mission which you entrust to me and I am ready to contact the French authorities. I shall exert the full weight of my authority to mediate in the conflict which has put you one against the other...
...best thing about Our Lan', the singing of spirituals by the Joshua Lee choir, only serves to make the show's conflict seem more picturesque than poignant...