Word: conflicts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wild concluded by remarking, "No fair-minded person can see a conflict between our traditional civil liberties and the natural rights of man; the right to work, leisure, education...
...pleaded for a peaceful settlement and prepared to localize the conflict as best it could. Mediators were dispatched with various partition plans, but these were hopeless, impossible plans and were speedily rejected. To make the rejection more emphatic, Count Folke Bernadotte was assassinated by a group of ill-advised and lawless Irgunists. But last week the Holy War seemed to be dying a natural death, a death hastened by the force of Jewish arms. David Ben Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel, announced peace overtures from two of the principal Arab states, Egypt and Trans-Jordan. The question is whether...
...would [also] like to take issue with you on ... the overemphasis of conflict in the human personality. One could easily assume therefrom that mental health is reachable through the elimination of conflict. This is not so. Conflict is as natural to man as his desire to avoid...
...would have been better to posit the situation in terms of balance. Then you would have reminded your readers of a basic truth-that emotional buoyancy and mental stability come, not so much from the resolution of conflict, but from the ability of the personality to maintain a balance between drives of varying intensity...
...well-acted clashes between Denmark and George, the play becomes resonant and vivid. But, itself a slave to history, it sprawls and jerks across twelve years and ten scenes, and, lacking a center, becomes a lumpy mixture of chronicle, drama, melodrama and tragedy. What is most effective is the conflict between the two men, but what arouses most interest is the conflict within one of them. The main trouble is that the play seems "written," that it lacks the body heat of reality...