Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first of the trio, The Majesty of the Law, based upon a Frank O'Conner story, deals with the conflict between an old man, representing the traditional peasant life, and a sympathetic minion of the law and order of modern Ireland...
...spinning started even before the Senate confirmed him. Clashing head-on with conflict-of-interest laws ("If I had come here to cheat, by God, I wouldn't be here"), Engine Charlie battled the Senate Armed Services Committee for ten days before agreeing to sell his General Motors stock (39,470 shares then worth $2,500,000; current market value: $4,500,000). It was from word leaked out of the secret Senate confirmation hearings that Wilson reaped headlines and outraged diatribes for one of the most famous remarks never made: "What's good for General Motors...
...country, much of the literary talent in the past thirty years has come from the South: Wolfe, Faulkner, Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and John Crowe Ransom. The South has its own colorful history, way of life and values, all of which came into conflict with the North, a region claiming moral superiority and possessing physical superiority. Southern writers became increasingly aware of the value of regionalism and fought the omnivorousness of Megapolis the exclusive formation of literary taste by New York. This moment reached its peak with the Southern Agarian movement led by Robert Penn...
...long, ways in all respects from Mormon Country). Like the South, Mormon Country has a very colorful history, established mode of life, and a much more definite set of values than even the South. Also like the South, and Ireland, and Russia, this has been a region in direct conflict with a larger culture, in this case, that of the rest of the United States which claimed moral and possessed physical superiority...
...Harvard, in a culture quite different than that of the rest of America, culturally-induced values and ideas are examined, and rejected, modified, or reinforced. Harvard serves as a focus of cultural conflict and this contributes to its production of many of America's finest writers...