Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Incalculable Forces. Dr. Schweitzer was equally confident about man's ability to weather his current storms. The great problem of modern times, he said, is "to safeguard the integrity of the individual within the modern state." The great modern conflict: "Personality versus collectivity . . . [They are] fighting everywhere. Collectivism in its various forms has deprived the individual of his individuality...
...could usually be found on Sunday evenings in his kitchen, making talk and scrambled eggs for his favorite students. From other historians Randall won respect, though not always agreement. A Lincolnian with Southern sympathies, he scorned the school that looked upon the Civil War as an "irrepressible conflict," chose to regard the war as the tragic error of an emotional and "blundering generation...
Inside the bar, gaunt-faced and intent, with his wife beside him, Defendant Alger Hiss, charged with perjury, watched the conflict between his spectacular lawyer and the witness who would not be shaken...
...rules & regulations on this show," says Lord. "The camera doesn't shift around, it stays on people's faces. The only time it moves is to show the bag of their trousers or the length of a sleeve. The courtroom is only in there for conflict-I wanted just to look at people's faces...
...just showing people's feet as they walk along, or maybe just their heads. And I'll show reflections of people's faces in store windows. It'll be an artistic thing. Like a French movie. But I haven't decided yet what the conflict will...