Word: conflictingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vassals steadily encroached toward the Soviet Union. Russia has been afraid to fight back, so Japan has found year after year. Finally and historically, Russia and her vassals began to fight back in earnest last week. This outburst of undeclared war was on the frontier at which a world conflict between East and West can begin any day. Therefore this week the Mongols, their Soviet patrons and their Japanese foes emerged into sudden and major importance (see pp. 24 & 25). Involved are four nations: Japan, Russia, China, Manchukuo, and a fifth-Germany. In Moscow today Soviet official wrath is directed...
...second, a representation of "Melancholia", the conflict is in almost complete equilibrium. A confusion of astrological allusions in the background indicates the mediaeval influence while the contemplative features of Melancholia herself, obviously grappling with some intellectual problem, is definitely Renaissance in spirit...
...mediaeval ideals to those of the Renaissance. Rather the two were always present in his later work, first one and then the other appearing to have the upper hand. A series of three engravings, all made within a few years of each other, shows how there was a constant conflict going on within...
...dread conflict of another five-four count...
...religious in temperament, Oliver rejected religion because he considered divine revelations to be factually untrue, justified only on psychological and human grounds. Where Mario accepted the customs of any group in which he found himself, fought during the War without a thought of the justice or meaning of the conflict, ended happily and prosperously by conventional standards, Oliver was frustrated, tormented, doomed. Yet the philosopher seems to say that of the two, Oliver's life was the richer and more admirable. Oliver might never win the love of Rose, but he would never misunderstand her so grossly as Mario...