Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when Stephen F. Austin brought his colonists to Texas, he brought them to the edge of one environment, the Eastern woodland, and to the border of another environment, the Great Plains. The Texas Rangers were called into existence primarily to defend the settlements against Indians on horseback. While the conflict between the Rangers and the Comanches was at its height, Samuel Colt invented the revolver, the ideal weapon for a man on horseback...
...Panavision, color and stereophonic sound; and "the temptress" (Martha Hyer) moves about murmuring to Herod Antipas, "You thrill my inmost being." There is also the Sermon on the Mount, delivered by an offstage voice in soft-sell tones. There are stabbings, hurricanes, ambushes, chases, the miracles of Christ, racial conflict between Arabs and Jews, one case of polio and a death by charcoal burner...
...best of modern mysteries equal or outrank the run-of-the-rental-shelf "straight" novel in almost every department-plotting, characterization, background. They are novels of emotional conflict, in unusual settings, books that wrestle with the problems of frustration or greed or success. The traditional hole in the victim's head is often added as a sort of casual dividend. Seasonal items...
...clear that you have chosen to act as apologist for Lee Falk's now defunct Boston Summer Theatre, and, more especially, for the Group 20 Players at Wellesley, now in their sixth season. I have no intention of taking one side or another in any conflict between the C.D.F. and Group 20; as a journalistic critic, I have been to see and/or review almost all the summer play productions in the area for a good number of years, and my admiration for the impressive roster of achievements by both these groups is strong. But your letter contains so many errors...
...trained in theology-Contestant Ingersoll last week churned out statements to document her own vision of the matter. The real issue, said Sue, is what happens when a Roman Catholic finds the charismatic (supernaturally graced) side of the church at odds with the canonical, and his private view in conflict with the church hierarchy's. Most non-Catholics, says Sue, believe that in such a conflict, the individual Catholic must "blindly and stupidly" knuckle under. But that is not true, and to demonstrate it, she wanted to stay in the contest-partly because, she felt, Senator Jack Kennedy...