Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over France long lines formed outside city halls as thousands of new voters, urged on politically by the stir of conflict and prodded legally by the risk of a fine for failure to register, rushed to put their names on the polling lists. In the first four days, 1,200,000 new voters were recorded, and election fever gripped the nation. By week's end, 28 "national" parties and some 700 local "lists" had entered a total of 5,000 candidates for the Assembly's 622 seats...
...intended there was no such intention, and reading back I feel reassured that basically there is no such insinuation, because I don't advocate any technical steps. If anything, I was advocating understanding instead of emotionalism as a basis with which to view and judge the present conflict...
...successes: on the Alcoa Hour, Thunder in Washington tried to pack into 60 minutes the entire story of a businessman in government, from his hopeful arrival, through his first miscues, to his humiliation before a Senate investigating committee. Author David Davidson struck boldly through the tangled swamp known as Conflict of Interest, but not even yeoman work by Melvyn Douglas and Ed Begley could make the main issues clear. Climax! starred Michael Rennie in Man of Taste, a melodrama about an art dealer who had a method for improving the price on his artists' paintings-he simply killed them...
Weltschmerz was not the only new attitude that Tillich derived from his four years of war service. Class conflict within Germany was becoming more and more pronounced, and within the young minister there "broke out ecstatically" a sympathy with the cause of social revolution. This feeling led him, during the twenties, to participate actively in political affairs. Meanwhile, he held several chairs of theology and philosophy, and developed his interests in psychology, the visual arts, and existentialism. In January, 1933, at the University of Frankfurt, he one day gave a lecture entitled "Heil Hitler," in which he analyzed the psychological...
...world about him and had the courage to draw what he saw: the Marxist "liberator" in turn enslaving the revolutionaries, the Franciscan friar as the symbol of brotherly compassion. These views, plus his hatred of war and distrust of political panaceas, often brought his art into open conflict with the rhetoric of Rivera and the angry manifesto images of Siqueiros. But they expressed the age-old cry of the Mexican people, and as such stand a chance of echoing in men's minds as long as poverty and injustice exist...