Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these final months of his White House residence, Harry Truman seems to be in continual conflict with himself, like a retiring sea captain looking forward to peaceful days on land, yet reluctant to part with his command. Last week, as he passed his 68th birthday, the inner conflict showed itself in a series of contradictory statements and a mercurial change of mood...
...necessary consequence of taking the sense of the community by the concurrent majority is . . . to give to each interest or portion of the community a negative on the others. It is this mutual negative among its various conflicting interests, which invests each with the power of protecting itself;-and places the rights and safety of each, where only they can be securely placed, under its own guardianship. Without this there can be no systematic, peaceful, or effective resistance to the natural tendency of each to come into conflict with the others; and without this there can be no Constitution...
Feverish note-taking is lacking, as is the idea of the instructor preaching a gospel. Professors employ largely the "key sentence" technique of drawing generalizations from specific reading material. They orient their classes to "social implications" by exemplifying cases of tension and conflict and then demonstrating the effects of that conflict on morality. This subtle system, overwhelming when it works, sometimes leads to a carelessness is dong assignments and gaining purely empirical knowledge...
...Atkinson issue has been pocketed is the Sub-Committee on Finance for the last six weeks. The conflict had previously state mated several Council meetings...
Crimson golfers tee off in the first tournament of the 1952 season this afternoon in the New England intercollegiate Golf Championships at the Oakley Country Club. But because of a conflict with the Eastern Intercollegiate tournament opening Saturday in Annapolls, Coach Frank Richart cannot send his top men to the local meet...