Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CRITIC, Updike displays the same tolerant eye for people which marks his fiction; the reviewer is not in conflict with the poet and novelist in him. His pieces, the majority of which have appeared in The New Yorker, are not pedantic and their appeal is expansive. His topics range from Borges's stoicism, Kierkegaard's tormented religiousity, Grass's flippant cynicism, to subjects of a more light-hearted tone, as for example in his piece called "Jong Love...
...growth are over, according to Bell. Bell and his colleagues fear that at this historical stage the public will run wild: Hateful of sacrifice for the public good, every interest group will demand its accustomed larger share of a non-expanding pie, causing disillusion, further inflation and possible class conflict (which translates into "chaos" for most of the Public Interest theorists). In an economy which can no longer afford to sate hedonism, the individualistic legacy of John Stuart Mill must be traded in for the approach of the principled conservatives, Burke and Tocqueville. Enlightened economic self-interest is no longer...
...father-son difference of opinion between House Majority Leader Thomas P. O'Neill (D-Mass.) and Lieut. Gov. Thomas O'Neill Jr. has arisen over the endorsement of presidential candidates, although both have said that this will not cause a family conflict...
...Cabrera Infante did not oppose the Cuban government with such vehemence when he emigrated in the early Sixties. Like many of the exiles, he supported Castro at the beginning; for three years he was a cultural official in the revolutionary administration, a founder of its Film Institute. But after conflict over a film that was suppressed because its theme was "decadent," he left the island on a diplomatic mission never to return...
...Aural Part. If Levine is a man in a hurry, he obviously thrives on it. "I never had even a tiny, faint conflict about what I wanted to do, not for as long as I can remember," he says. As a piano prodigy of ten, Levine played the Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Cincinnati Symphony. When it came time for a reward from his delighted parents, the answer was quick: "I want to go to New York and to the Metropolitan Opera." Later, as a student at the Juilliard School he could usually be found at the opera...