Word: conflictingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sheean wavered. But he began to take a hand in the processes of history, attempted to bring T. V. Soong, brother of Madame Sun Yatsen, from Shanghai to Hankow, offered to smuggle Fanny Borodin out of Peking. No longer the impassive newshawk, Sheean, when he covered the Jewish-Arab conflict in the Holy Land, broke down completely, took sides violently, and learned conclusively that he was "no longer a newspaper man." What journalism has lost, the quality magazines have gained. Mr. Sheean has become a "personality" in his own right...
Most college students, the recent Literary Digest poll indicates, would not engage in an invasion of the territory of another nation, but would take part in a "defensive war." A fine but altogether baseless, distinction apparently still exists in semi-academic circles between these two types of armed conflict. Liberty, the home, and the loved ones remain linked in imagination, with chivalrous sorties against brutal...
...idealistic voters pledge themselves to abstain from an offensive war they must assume that such a phenomenon actually exists. This is their fundamental fallacy. Not since history began has any nation fought a war that was not considered a defense of its vital interests. In the latest great conflict, for example, the Central Powers were protecting their "besieged fortress" from the encircling policy of the Entente, while the latter group was engaged in crushing the great German military monsters. In the Spanish-American War the United States was protecting the abused Cubans, while Spain defended its right to govern...
There is no real conflict between the lecture system and the tutorial system. In the Harvard plan of education each has its place. Why, then, this preference for the one over the other? No doubt many factors enter in: one of them seems to be the almost universal assumption that lecturing is more important than tutoring. Men will always strive to do the things which they think will advance their interests. As long as the false idea persists that the giving of a course may improve a man's chance of promotion, while tutoring does not, ambitious young members...
...cable and radio facilities also nationally controlled. Nearly every source of information is slightly biased, every avenue of communication may be closed by one or another government if the news is displeasing. The news is further filtered through American editorial desks, cager, in many cases, to accentuate exciting foreign conflict, or developments calculated to arouse American patriotic ire--with beneficial circulation results. Thus appears the "news" out of which the average man forms his opinions on foreign affairs...