Word: confronting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paralyzed priest of a great-uncle. Her relatives exist in cramped fright, having sealed off-in their retreat from reality-room after room in which anyone has died. A wily, bigoted aunt first keeps the girl from running away with her lover. Then she forces the girl to confront her lover's neurotic wife and to grasp that beyond her own Catholic problem of sin, her lover is still bound by strong conjugal ties. When the girl turns imploringly to her great-uncle in his wheelchair, he tries-but in vain-to offer something more than mere platitudes...
...there anything truly permanent in the universe with which we human beings can have any kind of communion? This is a question with which the elusiveness of history is bound to confront us; but it is a question that points beyond time and therefore beyond history too. We have seen that "objective" history is always elusive. The historian's most sincere attempts to grasp it are always partly baffled by the inescapable subjectiveness of his own point of view. Might not an omnipotent dictator, armed with new weapons of psychological technique, be able to cut his subjects off completely...
...student body tends to be split into groups and as often as not choosing electives to augment rather than supplement their major work. This results in the failure of many students to maintain a broad awareness of the basic issues of our times which they will soon have to confront as active citizens...
...described as "Fortress America." We may, however, be sure that all the strongest, wisest forces over there, irrespective of party, will not allow the great republic to be turned from the path of right and duty, and that they will disdain the taunts of impudence as effectively as they confront toil and danger...
...fact that a teacher is so summoned," Moskoff said. And the evidence bears out the great secrecy of the interviews at which a lawyer may accompany the summoned teacher. If any charges are levied against a teacher he has the right to a public trial, to counsel, to confront and cross-examine accusers and to testify in his own defense. He cannot be fired until his guilt has been proven before a court of law with rights of appeal and reinstatement should dismissal be held improper...