Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Citation: "Student at Columbia University, a senior editor of TIME, author of Witness, translator of Bambi and of several French and German books, who, after finding the error of his way, tries with some hesitation due to inner conflict, but with complete dedication of spirit and every resource of a brilliant mind, to arouse the American people, lulled to Circean inactivity, to the treasonable conspiracy against the country and the destruction of the Christian values implicit in our civilization and is met with public defamation, the eyebrow-raising of spiritual vagrants in and out of government, the supercilious superiority...
...part of the Chambers testimony that most disturbed the liberal intellectuals was his assertion that the great conflict of the age is between the believers in Man and the believers in God, and that the Communist faith can be defeated only by religious faith. Only a small minority of reviewers seemed able to accept this assertion. The majority rejected it, at best as misguided and intolerant, at worst as a damned outrage...
...heart," says Chambers, "the Great Case was this critical conflict of faiths; that is why it was a great case. On a scale personal enough to be felt by all, but big enough to be symbolic, the two irreconcilable faiths of our time-Communism and Freedom-came to grips in the persons of two conscious and resolute men . . . Both had been schooled in the same view of history (the Marxist view). Both were trained by the same party in the same selfless, semi-soldierly discipline. Neither would nor could yield without betraying, not himself, but his faith...
...deliberately rejected God. And it is the century in which this religious rejection has taken a specifically political form, so that the characteristic experience of the mind in this age is a political experience. At every point, religion and politics interlace, and must do so more acutely as the conflict between the two great camps of men-those who reject and those who worship God-becomes irrepressible. Those camps are not only outside, but also within nations...
Last week DeMille announced his next subject-a story by another, older epic-maker. Said he: "I have always been fascinated by the story of Helen of Troy. It offers the first dramatic example of conflict between Asia and Europe. And the love story of Paris of Troy and the beautiful Spartan girl Helen is something I've long wanted to bring to the screen. Homer did all right with his story. I'd like...