Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...symbol of death's irony: "Proudly he seeds the rotting earth and plucks sweet fruits out of the mourner's dearth," And his priest who takes "all sins upon his head" seems to be the symbol of human compassion. As a whole, the poem resolves itself into a conflict between the spiritual and material, and Junger's conception of their different roles in death...
Alexander was forced to overcome a small opposition who claimed that action was unconstitutional, since a "touch football game would be conflict, not cooperation with Yale...
...Pauling went to Oregon State College, then to CalTech, and did postgraduate research in Europe. He joined the CalTech faculty in 1927 and has been a full professor there since 1931. Though his interests have been almost purely scientific, softspoken, outspoken Dr. Pauling has not escaped political conflict. He served as vice president of the World Federation of Scientific Workers (which has Communist members), and this brought him to the attention of California and congressional investigating committees. Dr. Pauling has denied that he has ever been a Communist. He says, however, that he will continue to speak his mind...
...Such a conflict would be even more serious than the H-bomb delay. For if the U.S. cannot continue to enlist the support of science, if it cannot solve the critical problems of the relationship between the national interest and the pursuit of knowledge, then the U.S. will not survive-and will not deserve to survive. These are not questions for scientists alone or for public officials alone; they affect everybody, and it is wholesome, though painful, that the Shepley-Blair report brings a much larger part of this important argument to public view...
...Government (and in a nation) that was confused about its own strategic situation and unclear about its aims. A determined pressure group can play havoc in such a situation. To relate the story of how one such pressure group almost did, is not to set up a conflict of science v. the state. It is to warn that feeble top leadership can lead even the most powerful nations into mortal danger...