Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conflict is not based purely on prejudice, he admits, for "faculties are conservative bodies, and tend to oppose change so long as things appear to be going satisfactorily," while he sees himself as an administrator, whose job is to "anticipate trouble...
...appointing Buck, President Pusey has not removed the conflict between faculty and administration, but he has removed some of the prejudices. The faculty has always expected the librarian to be a scholar, an educator, an historian, for the librarian is in a sense the only man who controls the scholar's work...
...Town. This is the life of Mary, the cloistered life the world does not see, and it is part of the plan of Maryknoll that its busy Martha body recognizes its dependence on what the sisters call the convent's "hidden heart." For the apparent separation (and even conflict) between activity and adoration that seems to bifurcate Christianity is not real. Many great figures of the church, beginning with St. Paul, have combined both elements without conflict. "Laborare est orare," said St. Benedict (work is prayer). The Maryknoll sister hacking a kitchen garden out of the Bolivian jungle...
...situation in which Canada might conceivably remain neutral, Pearson said, would be a fight by the U.S. to defend the islands of Quemoy and Matsu. He said: "I do not consider a conflict . . . for the possession of these Chinese coastal islands [to be] one requiring any Canadian intervention...
...original speech had been "watered down." Diefenbaker rapped Pearson for creating the impression that defense of Quemoy and Matsu would be a "bush fire" of no concern to Canada. Said he: "It is but fantasy to say that what might happen over there would not become an all-embracing conflict...