Word: conflictingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Furthermore, there is no conflict between his thesis and ours. Psychological in appeal, the strike aims to make students aware of the danger of inaction and to unite youth in determination to avert the next war. By a "dramatic" appeal, can the pressure of indifference and unseen military propaganda best be overcome...
...transport on his own familiar ground, while his Army commander took over the broader "theatre of operations." Designed to "place emphasis upon instant availability of a maximum proportion of existing forces," the Four-Army Plan eliminates much costly delay and confusion during the early and critical days of conflict. Such an innovation, calling for reorganization and amplification of the echelons of command from G. H. Q. down, required tireless indoctrination and was not accomplished merely by issuing a general order. A comparable task would be scrambling and rewiring under an entirely different system New York City's telephone exchange...
...necessary to assist [newspapermen] when accidents occur on our system which they necessarily must report because of the news interest involved. It shall be the policy of the operations department not to conflict in any way when newspapermen require photographs. . . . [The operations man] should be careful to give facts and not conclusions of the accident. In any event, he should not . . . allow himself to be quoted in any statement concerning the accident. Newspapers will cooperate in this regard if the operations man explains that he will be glad to give information concerning the accident but the reporter must protect...
...book is taken from a poem by George Meredith in which he says, "We are betrayed by what is false within." The story is a continuation of the life history of Vridar and carries him through his early married days and hectic graduate work. Fisher best describes the internal conflict that beset Vridar when he says, "Two personalities within him--the poet, credulous, self-pitying, and lost to unattainable ideals, and the thinker, ruthless and sardonic--were becoming day by day more irreconcilable; and he was disintegrating in the struggle and knew...
...times we feel that the author over-plays the conflict and distorts his character out of the realm of reality but many more times he makes us experience the very emotions that drove Vridar to despair. There is no denying the intensity and vividness of the novel. On the other hand, the all-prevailing morbid tone often distorts the view so that it may not be seen from a proper vantage point...