Word: conflicts
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...greatest problem of all, Rusk believes, will be the continuing conflict with Communism: "I expect the struggle to be dynamic and intense...
...shares of Ford stock, drop options on 30,000 more shares-a potential personal loss of more than $3,000,000. Typically, McNamara turned down the suggestion from a Kennedy staffer that he should sell the stock to his children, thereby avoiding the loss without violating any conflict-of-interest...
...raised this hope after sketching a rather gloomy picture of prospects for ending the cold war by formal negotiations. "Disarmament by agreement is a contradiction in terms, unless the causes of the conflict are also resolved," he maintained. "Are you going to get people to agree not to disagree?" he asked, remarking that "disagreement caused the conflict in the first place...
Henri Takizala, President of the National Union of Students of the Congo, made a plea that the East and the West "temper their conflict and allow the Congolese themselves to come together and solve their problems." If this is not done, Takizala foresaw the possibility of the Congo's becoming "another Korea," a divided country with Western influence centered in Leopoldville and Soviet influence dominating stanleyville...
Then, there is the film's theme--I found, among many contenders, the conflict between Illusion and Reality most consistently referred to. Bergman seems especially fond of dropping hints that the real danger lies deeper than surface appearance. He emphasizes the unreal disguises of the magician and his wife as one of the reflections of this metaphysical concept--a crude and uninventive metaphor, I find. These admirable, is unoriginal, sentiments appear in a morass of conflicting counter-theories. Accident and the completely gratuitous introduction of the bizarre for mere effect add to the confusion--though they contribute immeasurably...