Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reverend John Lafarge, S. J. will deliver the annual Dudleian lecture on natural religion this afternoon at 3:15 o'clock in Andover Chapel. His topic is "The Conflict Between Immanentism and Transcendentalism from the Standpoint of Natural Religion...
...Marxist concepts of "art as a reflection of society" and "art as a weapon," pointing out that to Marx and Engels the great artist is the man who can "give the fullest picture of the reality of his time, not a future historical solution of the basic conflict he is describing." Marxists thus are more interested in the functions of art, not the aesthetic values of its form...
...Time-Life, is a shrewder, slicker model of this type (top of his Princeton class, always a sharp dresser); his book is smart, superficially cogent, and therefore the more dangerous. His thesis is that the time is ripe for world empire by one power, and that the inescapable conflict is between Russia and the United States. Borrowing handfuls from historian Arnold Teynbee's arbitrary classification of civilizations (what are the criteria for a civilization?), Burnham sees America as the saviour of Western Civilization from the dynamic surge of communism, which he describes in a lurid Budenz-like chapter...
...trouble is that Boston (or any other place) just couldn't be as nit-witted as MGM's version of it. All of the sure fire of conflict that forces the Apley of the novel to reexamine his life every time he brushes against the non-Boston world--is telescoped into two dozen or so scenes that are very inadequate. One by one the facets of Apley's life are given five-minute treatment until he becomes a predictable, uncomplicated incompetent who can be counted on for the wrong decision, or at least a carefully articulated Malapropism...
Lauterbach does not regard an American-Russian conflict as inevitable, but from the almost desperate urgency of his words when he sums up the situation, he evidently feels that the time is later than we in this country believe. Responsibility for allowing the situation to deteriorate to the extent that it has, in the author's opinion, is as much America's as the Soviet's, with the balance tipped in favor of Russia, since we always had the advantage of the atom bomb. The press, too, comes in for its share of criticism--he accuses a portion...