Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That's right, the Civil War, not the puny revolution that Boston is so full of, but the war between the states, fought to preserve the union forged in the first conflict. Fort Warren was a huge Civil War prison, housing captured and cold Confederates in its musty dungeons. Visitors to the island today can clamber inside the earthen and granite prisons and imagine how lonesome life must have been for these sons of the South. So lonesome, in-indeed, that one young officer devised a way out of his predicament. He smuggled a message to his Georgia wife, asking...
...conflict is also between tradition and progress, farm and factory. Abhorring the very idea of living in industrial townships, the Bedouins argue instead for the creation of their own moshavim, the model agricultural cooperatives that have been especially successful in the northern Sinai. But Israeli government officials have long insisted that the tribesmen are needed as a labor force for new industries that are planned for the Negev. Moreover, the well-equipped, high production moshavim require large tracts and expensive irrigation. And, as one senior official bluntly told TIME's Lesley Hazleton, "I'm not giving good Jewish...
Even when things again went badly for capitalism, the left could not capitalize on its opportunities. The anti-Establishment was right about the Viet Nam War; it proved a conflict that could not be won, or lost, with honor. But radical rhetoric kept linking dislike of the war with condemnation of the whole American system. Perspectives were blurred; hard-liners compared the U.S. to Hitler's Germany and listeners turned away. Today, as Jimmy Carter acknowledges the country faces recession, popular distrust of big corporations and the existence of a sizable underclass. And still most Americans can imagine...
...untrue, says Sulloway: the notion that infants possessed sexual stirrings was fashionable during the 1890s, even before Freud wrote about it, and the idea that neurotic conflict had a sexual component was also conventional. Indeed, says the author, many of the ideas that Freud synthesized into psychoanalysis had been around for years: among them, such now familiar concepts as the unconscious, the pleasure principle, regression and sublimation. Fliess, a Berlin physician who was Freud's closest friend for years, convinced Freud that all human beings were bisexual, and also offered ideas on the latency period (low sexuality preceding puberty...
...fiscal policy which causes higher unemployment would probably conflict with White House desires in an election year, Law said. However, "it seems a traditional role for the Federal Reserve Board to be in conflict with the White House," he added...