Word: clashed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While serving time in a prison camp, Wang saidhe read Weatherhead University Professor Samuel P.Hungtington's Clash of Civilizations andGoldman's Sowing the Seeds of Democracy inChina, which features Wang in his role as aleader in the 1989 demonstrations...
...sent waves of Jewish immigrants into the country. Furious Arab leaders launched a rebellion against the British and a holy war on the Jews. Much earlier than others, Ben-Gurion recognized the depth and rationale of Arab objection to Zionism: he was aware of the tragic nature of a clash between two genuine claims to the same land. His position on this can be described neither as hawkish nor dovish: he saw the creation of an independent homeland for the homeless Jewish people as, first and foremost, a crucial provision for the survival of persecuted Jews...
...recent discussions at Mather House, the clash between seniors and younger, randomized students posed a similar problem for the Mather HoCo. The controversy arose between seniors who predominantly chose the courtyard as the ideal (and traditional) location for the spring formal and randomized sophomores and juniors hoping for a new location...
...there is no denying here in these two male-oriented porno/home-shopping sites, we have an essential principle of noir--the conflict between the rough and the pleasant, between grit and gloss. It is a symbolic battle between the seedy underworld and the conventions of society, a clash between the deviant and the traditional. Do real heroes wear leather or lace...
...direct proportion to their lack of ambition. The characters are all too easy to parse: Serge is a modernist but really a dilettante; Marc, a classicist who's a snob underneath; Yvan, an art-naif who goes whichever way the wind blows. The audience has little investment in the clash between them because their friendship seems implausible from the get-go: there's no explanation of how or why they became friends, no real sense of closeness. This might be tolerable if Art worked as a Shavian battle of wit and ideas, but mostly it's just three guys needling...