Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...extraordinarily diverse people of his stories are linked by a common conflict between the desire for independence and the need for the security of roots and tradition, family and land; it is essentially the conflict between the part of human nature that revels in the freedom of modern society and the part that longs for the bygone world where everything was certain and there were no frightening decisions to be made. An orphaned girl finds that to achieve her individual goals in today's America she must cease to cling to memories of her father and their harrowing experience...
...speech before 40 students in Boylston Hall last night, Spartacist Central Committee member Joseph Seymour called the civil war in Angola "the most important international conflict since Vietnam" and attacked both the United States and China for their stands in the Angolan conflict...
...Moynihan felt that the British attack was relished by his critics in Washington and Kissinger's first public defense of him - "I very much hope he stays, I consider him a good friend" - was symptomatic of tepid State Department support. Moynihan believes that in the U.N., the conflict is essentially between political philosophies, ind he feels U.S. career diplomats are often untrained for battle. They, Moynihan gibed cruelly in a recent speech, are likely to ask, "Marx...
...eventually concludes that the fundamental inconsistency in liberal theory is the conflict between what he calls the "universal" and the "particular." Everywhere one is confronted with an inability to apply theory to fact, creating contradictions within both our institutions and our consciousness...
Then, in another turnaround, on November 12 of this year, Hines quit the squad. (In an apparently unrelated move, sophomores Roosevelt Cox and Roland Smart also left the team.) At the time, Hines refused to comment on the matter. Now he is willing to say the conflict between his life on and off the court had become too great. He felt he was cheating himself in both his athletic and academic pursuits. When the crunch came, Hines decided to take the off-court life more seriously...