Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...undecided. The same poll showed 29 state governors for, 7 against, and 12 undecided. Senatorial supporters include William F. Knowland (R-Cal), Wayne Morse (Ind-Oregon), Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn), Homer Ferguson (R-Mich) and Francis Case (R.S.D.). The political views of those particular gentlemen are frequently in conflict...
...Eastertide* have been for Christians a time for prayer and devotion, and for all men a time of urgency and stress. History, poised between Ivy and Jughead, between the 38th parallel and Dienbienphu, has enforced a Lenten mood upon the nations with the sack cloth of political conflict and showers of radioactive ash. The chocolate bunnies, the dizzy eggs and the pretty bonnets of Easter are the more incongruous for it. For Lent looks to the real Easter; and to lift high that great light in man's darkness is the holy challenge of the churches...
...rise of modern science, with the new knowledge of biology, philosophy, human nature, and the cosmos--although not itself in direct conflict with Religion--had certain implicit assumptions in conflict with the Christian world-view. This resulted in a lack of dynamism in the churches themselves and consequently a lack of emphasis at Harvard as elsewhere...
...Church then move with the stream and side with America and the Vatican, merely because somewhere in the textbooks of its professors-ever since 1934-it has rightly been said that 'totalitarianism' is a dreadful thing? . . . The Church ought to stand quietly aloof from the present conflict and not let off all its guns before it is necessary, but wait calmly to see whether the situation will grow serious again . . ." So last week Karl Barth waited in his comfortable study in Basel, working on his magnum opus in theology, Dogmatics, still unconvinced that Communism is the "temptation" that...
Five days later, Mr. Sears was back before the committee attempting to explain away the conflict between what he had said to them and the abundant evidence in Boston newspaper files that he had been a frequent and public support of Senator McCarthy...