Word: confrontations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco finally surmounted the "regionalism" issue by a formula which allows regional systems to settle their own disputes, but passes responsibility to the central organization in case the regional efforts fail. Actually, no formula could erase the reality of regionalism; it remained to confront the world with the dangers of competing spheres...
...money was of any consequence. I grew up to believe wholly and completely in men and women who lived simply, frugally, and in fine faith. I learned that fear was inspired in men and women who could not reconcile themselves to the possibility that hardship and sacrifice might confront them in battling for the right...
...mind, they said that in spite of his orders, they would also stay. Hitler again ordered them to leave; in ten minutes, he said, the Russians might be before the Chancellery. Keitel and Bormann repeated that they would stay. Keitel added: 'We would never be able to confront our wives and children if we left...
Last week, as usual, millions of U.S. citizens gathered at their radios (NBC, 8 p.m., E.W.T.) to hear McCarthy confront and confound one of the nation's names. This time it was Orson Welles. McCarthy (who, of course, always has Scriptwriter Bergen on his side) blithely opened up: "Oh, Orson! .. . Oh, Wellesie! . . . Where is old fatso?" Welles came out of the wings at NBC's Manhattan studios, and McCarthy chirped: "Why don't you release a blimp for active service?" Once before, Welles had taken even worse abuse from his radio host. That time the actor...
...individual soul, and that men may enter "the Divine Ground" of eternity only by a regime of selflessness and contemplation. Nor should man imagine that death will save him the trouble of choosing between flesh and spirit. Author Huxley's alarming notion is that the same choice will confront all men in the hereafter...