Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Government courses dealing with International Law, International Organization, and Political Theory are the most popular, while, outside that department, a seminar in Group Prejudice and Conflict (Sociology 32) is favored. Several fellows are also enrolled in History, Architectural Sciences, and Geology courses...
...people were blistered with humiliation by the currish policy of the old Conservative gang in power, the pugnacity of Winston brought him to the fore. The country meant to fight and he delighted in fighting. For want of a better, he became the symbol of our national will for conflict, a role he has now outlived...
Gertrude Lawrence breathes buoyancy into this serious drama about love and war, to produce a superior play of intense earnestness. Playwright Jacques Deval has probed deeply into the underlying significance of armed conflict and the meaning of life and death with an original three-character approach...
Virginius Dabney has arrived at his liberal views by patient, thoughtful effort and constant conflict with his patrician heritage. His editorials, ground out with painful slowness, are almost pedantically preoccupied with both sides of the question. They are invariably prosaic and humorless. His advocacy last year of the abolition of Jim Crow busses and streetcars in Virginia, which set the whole South on its ear, was put forward in a quiet editorial entitled "The Conservative Course in Race Relations." Excerpt: "Many Virginians probably do not know it, but we have now arrived at the point where radicals from the North...
...Hall the Conquering Hero" packs a punch. The theme of the picture is patriotism. Against this, Sturges plays love, plain and simple. The conflict of these forces within the protagonist, Eddie Bracken, generously spiced with ridiculous situations and hilarious horseplay, forms the basis of the plot...