Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christendom (meaning "all Christians collectively") is split into disunited, sometimes warring, sects and churches, more than 250 in the U.S. alone. Protestants have lived with Christian fragmentation-and rationalized it with Christian doubletalk-for centuries (see box). But it has a way of bringing them up short whenever they confront the concept of "The Church." What is the Christian Church, and where...
...first time in his series of novels, "Paths to Freedom," Sartre appears clearly in his dual role; characters of the novelist begin to confront questions set by the philosopher. In "The Age of Reason," and "The Reprieve," a nation of individuals, typified by Mathieu, shrank from commitment, thinking to escape choice. Now, a few wake to the thought that their very failure to act--the vote they did not cast, the protest they did not speak--was itself a choice: a choice of war, and with war, defeat-Mathieu understands: "Let them clamor to the skies: 'We have nothing...
...atomic umbrella continues to protect a united free world, if the U.S. strengthens Europe and Asia fast enough, if Communism is rolled back, the West can confront the Kremlin with the conditions for peaceful coexistence...
Different Issue. The great debate of 1951 was more than just a bigger, louder version of the old issue labeled isolationism. The issue was not whether to acknowledge an enemy, but where and how best to confront a threat that everyone recognized and none minimized. It was a question of where U.S. frontiers should be, whether there was time only to batten down the hatches, or still time to win, friends and stand against Russia...
Dutch newsmen at The Hague conference, where Indonesia and The Netherlands were trying to settle the status of West New Guinea (or Irian, as the Indonesians call it), knew that negotiations had reached a delicate impasse. It was no time to confront the sensitive Indonesians with a blunt question, so the newsmen last week delicately sounded out Foreign Minister Mohamed Rum. "Are you happy?" they asked. "I am not happy," answered Rum. What he meant was: "The conference has failed. The political weather ahead...