Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MANTLE. This Danish-Swedish film is a beautiful, occasionally bloody saga of the conflict of love and honor in medieval Iceland...
Assuming this distinction, it was further maintained that the University need not play host in the OGCP to organizations whose activities conflict with its own ends and moral commitments as a university, and that if an organization is so perceived by a significant body of University opinion, the University may sometimes properly act on that opinion. It seemed, moreover, that undergraduates should have a strong voice in any such decision, since the OGCP exists primarily to serve them...
...further, appeared the following month in the first issue of New American Review. The fourth and by far largest section (28,000 words) appears in the Review's current issue (New American Library, paperback; $1.25). Titled Civilization and Its Discontents, after Freud's famous essay on the conflict between the individual's instinctual urges and society's demands for restraint, the latest monologue is the freest, funniest, most touching-and terrifying...
...struggle for liberalization, in essence, is just another manifestation of the age-old conflict between two opposed mentalities; to speak very broadly, those of the "Bureaucrat" and the "Intellectual." The Bureaucrat is stolid, excessively rationalistic and cautious about accepting change. This is no accident, as administrative structures tend to select precisely such men for their top posts, weeding out those who do not fit the pattern. The Bureaucrat is therefore most at home in a politically repressive system, in which his power is least questioned. The Intellectual, on the other hand, is primarily concerned with unfettered human expression in both...
...conflict between these different mentalities is universal, but varies in its virulence from society to society. In the U.S., for example, the Bureaucrat does not have much power over the individual's personal or artistic life. Crises erupt, as over the Vietnam War or at Columbia, when the Bureaucratic power suddenly stands revealed as unreasonably wide-ranging...