Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Korea veterans are registering at the University this fall in the first large batch since the beginning of the Far Eastern conflict, the Veterans Office announced yesterday. Of a total 55, 12 of them are enrolled in the College...
Beauty and the Devil (Franco-London Films; Arthur Davis) is a comical French version of the Faust legend. Writer-Director Rene Clair tells the story of Dr. Faust, who sold his soul to the devil in exchange for youth, power and pleasure, in terms of satire rather than spiritual conflict. In this version, Mephisto is a merry old devil who assumes the shape of the aging Faust while the latter becomes a dashing young student. With the help of the beautiful young gypsy. Marguerite, the rejuvenated Faust finally triumphs over Mephisto in a happy ending...
...these extracts hint, Author Winsor's eagerly awaited new book is about what she calls "primal" relations. Her publishers profess to believe that in The Lovers she has "unearthed the roots of the conflict between the sexes with candor and rare understanding," but this is not quite true. The Lovers has candor, all right, and its understanding is as rare as a steak cut from a live cow, but Author Winsor is not a writer who employs her pen as a grub hoe. What she investigates are not concealed roots but visible furnishings: "His body . . . had the ... apparent hardness...
...Grand Rapids. "The Republican Party is hopelessly divided over foreign policy ... I don't envy . . . [Eisenhower's] impossible dilemma as a result of the conflict in the party he now heads...
Inescapable Conflict. John Sparkman likes to reconcile-or at least patch up-opposing views, a taste which makes him a good politician. But in February 1948 came Harry Truman's call for compulsory FEPC, anti-lynching and anti-poll tax laws, a blow which forced the great majority of Southern New Dealers into the arms of Southern conservatives. For the first time John Sparkman found his loyalty to the Administration in inescapable conflict with his loyalty to the South and his own political skin. As unobtrusively as possible Sparkman chose the South. He tried to avoid public discussion...