Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this point in the 20th century, the strange vitality of what seem to be religious wars? Westerners tend to regard them as something anachronistic-an offense against the heritage of the Enlightenment, spasms of violent superstition. If war is often enough inexplicable, religious conflict at least seems to carry war's inherent irrationality into an even uglier, throwback realm of absolutes, beyond the reach of compromise. Or perhaps it is simply that agnostic societies find it difficult to understand why anyone would think religion worth fighting about...
...first of Ankori's two Summer School courses deals almost exclusively with the history of Arab-Israeli conflict. The second concentrates on Palestinian history...
...born in a tribal conflict, like so many other nations, but in a conflict over principles. Those principles were thought to be universal, which was part of the reason for the unprecedented policy of throwing the new country open to all comers. That not only served to make the U.S. a world power in sheer numbers (compared, for instance, with Canada, which kept its population small and has complained ever since about being overpowered by its southern neighbor). It also greatly reinforced the abstract and ideological nature of American patriotism. The millions from other lands and other cultures had different...
...This conflict, old and obvious, is being revived all over the globe today in a revolt against money-against capitalism and the consumer society. What is forgotten all too easily is that money was and is a tremendous liberating force, a great equalizer. It destroyed the old class structure and enabled anyone to rise; money made it possible for people without distinguished birth, without land and sometimes even without education, through enterprise or luck or both, to change their place in life. All this would be little more than a familiar academic footnote if it were not for the fact...
...embarrass Prime Minister John Vorster on the eve of his talks with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in West Germany. That the riots damaged Vorster's cultivated image as the statesman of segregation seemed clear enough. Nonetheless, Vorster remains the only key to solving the growing racial conflict in neighboring Rhodesia. Thus Kissinger went ahead with the meeting-as he put it earlier-"to see whether South Africa would be willing to contribute to a moderate and peaceful evolution of events in southern Africa...