Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conflict that threatened to destroy Lebanon-and to embroil the U.S.-was not exactly total war. In Beirut harbor, water skiing, yachting and bikini bathing went on unabated last week. The curfew's chief effect on the diplomatic set was to move up cocktail parties from 7 to 5, and to make luncheons more popular than dinner parties. Diners stopped rushing out for a look when bombs went off, merely glanced at their watches so that they could see which bomb it was in the newspaper next morning. Daily papers printed want ads for apartments "in the calmest quarter...
...cases of so-called spiritual healing "there could never be established scientific evidence which would compel the conclusion that it was the spiritual content of the ministrations which had brought about the cure." In an appendix on "Christian Science and Spiritualism," the commission characterized Christian Science as "in clear conflict with the Christian Gospel," and added that "had the Church faithfully and intelligently carried out our Lord's commission to heal, Christian Science would have had no reason for existence...
...fourth hat, the one she wears as Mrs. Charles D. Peet of Bronxville, wife of a Manhattan lawyer, mother of a son, 22, a daughter, 12. She and her husband duck Manhattan nightlife, spend most of their spare time at home with their family. Does Mrs. Peet find conflict in two careers in the family? "I get disgusted," she says, "with people who try to emphasize 'the battle of the sexes'-always pitting men against women. I think the only important thing is for each person to live up to his own potential." Her advice to women...
...damned soul's eternal tension between love of self and love of God-and is much like the pain of schizophrenia. "We know that in this life the schizophrenic personality suffers greatly. Such a man believes that he is himself and someone else, [and] riven by this conflict he suffers as though devoured by himself. Now it is possible that the soul in Hell could feel this inner division with regard to itself and to the God for whom it thirsts with all its being . . . But the soul in Hell has throughout its life insisted upon making itself...
...modernity, prized Italian railroads "more than Italy's hundred galleries of priceless art treasures." Antiquarian Henry James found the restoration of Venice's St. Mark's "crude" and "monstrous," even though the basilica might otherwise have crumbled about the pigeons in the Piazza San Marco.*This conflict adds a fillip to two thoroughly engaging travel books that should please the chairborne as well as the airborne tourist...