Word: clashingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movie chosen to be about this clash of cultures, then Rosebud might have been hard-edged and fairly exciting. Instead it watches Danny try to make friends with an Indian named Frank (Robert Forster), who is consumed by angst and alcohol. Danny also pays a lot of attention to Frank's ex-wife (Victoria Racimo), a situation that eventually gives Frank an excuse to rack himself up in the final scenes...
OCTOBER 1968. The first major clash between Catholic civil rights demonstrators and Ulster police took place in Londonderry...
...that Johnson's real "crime" was to be a militant black radical, a leading member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In May of 1967, there was a confrontation between Houston police and the predominantly black students of Texas Southern University. One white policeman was killed in the clash, probably by a stray police bullet, and no one was ever convicted of anything. Privately, however, police blamed Johnson, then 27, for "agitating" students in campus speeches...
...technique enables him to contribute some valuable commentary. He notes how the press is manipulated by government, regardless of attempts at detachment and objectivity; he shows the human side of human nature, and he sees that an event such as the Arnheiter case cannot be capsuled as a symbolic clash of ideology; and he takes a well-aimed shot at the Navy for its lack of an independent judiciary to review internal disputes. So even this stylistic break is forgiveable: It is justified by the thoughtful conclusions which Sheehan draws. Evidently, those conclusions depart sharply from those Arnheiter reached...
...fourth consecutive year Harvard and Penn will clash in head-to-head competition for the national collegiate squash championship. The undefeated Crimson, a slight favorite today, will host the once-beaten Quakers at 2 p.m. on the Hemenway Courts...