Word: strife
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...being held in thrall at machine-gun point by a tyrannical seaman named Ichiro. The Navymen dropped encouraging letters on the holdouts' camp from the air and waited. Last week the remaining Japanese met them on the beach, bearing the ashes of companions killed by accidents or internal strife, a pet cat and a new version of Inoue's story. The petty tyrant of Ana-tahan, it seemed, had been not Ichiro, but Inoue himself. His highhanded rule caused his compatriots to banish him from their group to a lonely spot on the island from which...
...paced; he is helped out a great deal by a delightfully pastoral musical score by Bonar Gillis. The acting, unfortunately, is less competent. Jane Cruikshank plays the Snopes daughter with a sheepish grin, while Basil Mange is never convincing as the anthropologist-congressman who finally settles the inter-racial strife. "North Forty's" technicolor sheep are wonderfuly convincing, however, and they leave the moviegoer with a true sensation of the Old West...
...Communist man ... is pathetically dehumanized . . . severed from his divine origin and divine destiny; denied the spiritual principle which gives his reason access to the truth, which endows his conscience and will with the craving for the good, which empowers his heart to love; imprisoned hopelessly in this world of strife and frustration, here to center all his hopes and here to erect his paradise . . . He is but a passing shadow of no duration, a fragment of no intrinsic or ultimate worth...
Question Box. The fierce struggle between the corporate giants still goes on, but it has traveled from the front pages high into the legal stratosphere of the courts. Most people were less interested in the sounds of business strife than in a few straight answers to a few simple questions. They wanted to know: What is color TV like? And when can they see it in their homes? And is CBS color really "mechanical" and already out of date? And just what is all the shooting about...
Last week Attorney General Roy H. Beeler gave his opinion: yes. The attorney general could not conceal his deep uneasiness: "I am fearful that . . . strife and turmoil will be engendered." But, he concluded, "we in the South now have no other alternative. We must bow to the inevitable and go along as good citizens of the United States...