Word: clashingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strike. Full-page newspaper ads accused Echeverria of "attacking the productive men of Mexico." Privately, business spokesmen charged the President with seeking to impose a "socialist or Communist system." As aroused campesinos in neighboring Sinaloa prepared to occupy vast new acreage last week, Echeverria balked. To avoid a bloody clash between the peasants and landowners, he announced a compromise: only a token 32,000 acres of land would be distributed to farm hands; any further expropriation would wait until the new President took office...
...obvious result of the Syrian-Palestinian clash in Lebanon has been the emergence of a completely autonomous PLO from Syrian influence. To a certain extent this is also true with respect to Russia. The Russians never actively supported the Palestinians during the war, and in a sense they even turned their backs on them. To the extent that their statelessness and relative weakening of political and military strength allows, the PLO has become a much more independent group and has therefore much greater flexibility of operation. The first signs of this flexibility are hints of a more pro-American stand...
Readers in search of another adult serial may be forgiven if they switch to Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman before finding out what is really on Updike's mind in Marry Me. Through the evident clash between sense and sympathy, Jerry Conant emerges as one of Updike's ambiguous truth carriers. It is by no coincidence, comrades, that being with Sally symbolically cures both his insomnia and his fear of death. All of Jerry's apparent follies-the reversion to calf love, the dramatic moral posturings, the delusive passion-are meant to be regarded as signs of life...
...naturalism stands in uneasy contrast to Emerson's frenetic, histrionic, almost self-parodying Marchbanks. As the timid poet, Emerson shrinks, flinches and mugs his way to a good quantity of laughs. But the scene between the two antagonists, especially their initial confrontation, are jarring--not because of the clash of personalities, but because of the disparity in acting styles...
...clearest clash, however, is over bread and butter. Unlike Buckley, Moynihan favors a federal takeover of welfare, passage of a national health-insurance bill and enactment of other measures necessary to help the economically distressed Northeast. He accuses Buckley of abandoning New York State's economic interests for the sake of antiquated conservative principle...