Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that have the ring of reality and pathos--Marcelino, the orphan, brilliantly played by Pablito Calvo stealing bread from the kitchen, or playing with an imaginary friend, or the monks' touching ineptness with the baby. Juan Calvo as Brother "Cooky" does a beautifully perceptive job of acting, depicting the conflict between his vocation as a monk and his fatherly love of the boy. The worst and most untenable scenes are those of the actual miracle and of Marcelino's absurdly saccharine inquiries about "mothers...
Miss Julie is a more painful subject to approach than its predecessor on the program. Although justly evaluated as one of the landmarks of the naturalistic theater, the play today is still--even in the best of performances--something of a bore. Written in 1888, the play illustrates the conflict between a declining aristocracy and a rising middle class by focusing on the story of a valet in a decadent Swedish noble household who seduces--or, more properly, is seduced by--the daughter of the house. Appalled at what she has done, the weak-willed Miss Julie maneuvers the valet...
...keep nuclear warheads for NATO missiles under its own "technical custody." But the U.S. could deliver missiles without warheads to allies. "In the event of war," said Dulles, the President could, under his war powers, order the warheads turned over to the U.S.'s allies in the conflict...
...Urges. On the evidence to date, psychiatrists saw Gein as the victim of a common conflict: while consciously he loved his mother and hated other women, unconsciously he had hated her and loved others. She had subjected him to deep frustration. Also, his development had somehow been arrested so that he continued, childlike, to perceive people as mere objects. As a young man, Eddie Gein had tittered over the family's medical guide with its revealing anatomical drawings and its front-cover injunction: "You can do nothing to bring the dead to life, but you can do much to save...
...example of this conflict, Baldwin cited the Social Service Committee, which last Wednesday released a report outlining the obligations to both agencies and volunteers. Tension, the report said, develops from what should be two compatible concepts: the volunteer's dedication to service and his desire for an educational experience...