Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...epithet in art criticism, but in this connection it constantly arises as the laudatory description of a narrative school of art. In comparison, and often, unfortunately, in opposition, the modern art of France is cited as an opposed camp. The debate has been made to resemble an international conflict...
...theory justifying dictatorship as the happiest state for Venezuelans. In working out what he called a "New National Ideal," Francophile, anticlerical Vallenilla Lanz led the dictator into many a blunder. One was December's unpalatable yes-or-no plebiscite for a second five-year term. Another was a conflict with the Roman Catholic Church, capped after the revolt by the jailing of five priests...
...Wanderer are set apart because they have been touched by God; he works on them not merely "signs and wonders" but the miracle of possession. To the priestess and the Wanderer (and this is the book's message), God is not peace or security; he is agony, conflict-and yet ineffable sweetness as well. "The divine is not human," says the priestess. "It is something quite different. And it is not noble or sublime or spiritualized, as one likes to believe. It is alien and repellent and sometimes it is madness...
...half-hour talk, McElroy accepted the President's offer on the single condition that he be allowed to take a leave of absence from (instead of quitting) Procter & Gamble (since P. & G. was willing to give up its small share of defense contracts, there seemed to be no conflict of interests). Before taking over, McElroy characteristically set out on his tour of military establishments. On the evening of Oct. 4 he was at dinner at the Army's Huntsville, Ala. ballistic missile center when Rocket Scientist Wernher Von Braun was called from the table. Von Braun returned, face...
...Washington diplomat" may be right about Indonesia's going Communist in the Dutch-Indonesian conflict. Ever since Sukarno has been president in Indonesia (1945), nationalism has been equivalent to opportunism. After Dutch West New Guinea, Indonesia's next targets will be British West Borneo, Portuguese Timor and Australian East New Guinea...