Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...learning in this way. Psychology at this University is taught by psychologists, medicine by doctors--each field, in fact, by people devoted to it, even devoted to certain theories in the field to the exclusion of others. Both the devotees and the theories compete, and out of this conflict comes accomplishments that add to the University's intellectual luster. Once it is admitted that the common strands in religions are useful to education, the devotees of religion, and this includes many men outside the ministry, deserve as much intellectual tolerance as anyone else...
...members include five Senators, five Representatives, four state governors. At the White House last week, President Eisenhower witnessed the commission's swearing-in. Its assignment, according to the President: to look for methods of eliminating "frictions, duplications and waste from federal-state relations." No. i problem: conflict and overlapping in federal and state taxation...
...gathering, the 1948 Lambeth Conference of all the archbishops and bishops of my church, put it like this: "... Communism is presenting a challenge to Christian people to study and understand its theory and practice, so that they may be well instructed as to which elements in it are in conflict with the Christian view of man...and which elements are a true judgment on the existing social and economic order...
Higher education in the U.S. is chaotic and is bogged down in makeshift adjustments to environment, too much vocational specialization and lack of a basic philosophy. This is the theme of Robert Maynard Hutchins' new book, The Conflict in Education (Harper; $2), published this week. Educator Hutchins, longtime (1929-51) head of the University of Chicago and now associate director of the Ford Foundation, warns that unless the universities begin preparing students to participate in the "Great Conversation that began with the dawn of history and continues at the present day," the outlook for Western civilization is indeed grim...
...Central State Hospital at Petersburg, Va. in the current issue of Mental Hygiene. "Psychologists have observed that when such a relationship, early acquired and strongly rooted in the depths of man's personality in infancy and childhood, is either lost or seriously disturbed in later life, a conflict results, manifesting itself in some form and degree of personality disorder ... In such cases, one might rightly say that [a] man became literally 'sick in the spirit...