Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lure back their audiences, says Kerr, modern playwrights must offer them once again "a robust and companionable outsized experience," full of sound, color, movement, conflict, and the "sort of magical speech" which can best be achieved in verse. ("Every major serious play-and the lion's share of the comedies-that we cling to out of the past are verse plays...
...addition to retaining music within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard is doubly unusual in its attempt to combine the technical and general education approaches to musical instruction within the same courses. Obviously, a conflict arises, and it is the problem of reconciling these two aspects which is the chief one of the department...
Yale, in disclosing the new plan, said that it was caused to a great extent by extra-curricular life conflicting with studies. "Undoubtedly," the Yale announcement said, "the emphasis on athletics, extra-curricular life, weekends, and a bee-hive of activity outside the classroom on which prestige and success are felt to turn, now makes an environment which involves serious conflict with important educational goals...
...governments of France, the United Kingdom and the U.S. believe that the time has now come for a new effort to resolve the great problems which confront us. We, therefore, invite the Soviet government to join with us in an effort to remove sources of conflict between us ... We think it would be fruitful to begin with a meeting of the heads of government...
Peron & Co. kept up the pressure. In the city of Eva Peron, police locked up 15 leading Catholic laymen, bringing to 60-odd the total jailed in various cities within a fortnight. Half a dozen priests were arrested, making a total of three dozen jailed since the conflict broke out last October. The Argentine Senate passed a bill to end the property-tax exemptions of churches, parochial schools and other denominational institutions. Both houses voted to abolish religious instruction in public schools. The Peronista legislators were unanimous, but the minuscule Radical Party minority in the Chamber (the Senate...