Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stability of Mormonism [Aug. 7] is most appealing to those who are experiencing conflict in the home and may be turning to this religion for help. Actually, Mormon families are stable because carefully defined roles have been created and are acted out by each member. Each male is expected to lead, each female to follow, regardless of temperament or capability...
...miseries, ghettos like the South Bronx burning themselves out, and horripilating parlors of decadence, catering to the most specialized of the perverse. Much of the rest of the nation regards New York as a cautionary tale, the urban exemplar of everything that can go wrong: poverty, pollution, crime, racial conflict, corrupt and stupid government, dirt, traffic, immorality and, no doubt, sinful pride...
...relations alone had been resumed in 1972 on the condition that the treaty be signed in the near future. But negotiations soon broke down when the Chinese insisted on an "anti-hegemony" clause, which would have committed Japan to side with China in the event of a Sino-Soviet conflict. The Russians, meanwhile, launched a campaign of their own to keep Japan from signing the treaty...
Until the Inquisition's crackdown, the villagers were more confused than threatened by theological conflict. Some chose to "fish from both banks," as one witness put it. Pierre Maury, a goodhearted shepherd who followed the seasons across the Pyrenees into Catalonia and back again, explained, "I want to use what I earn from my work to do good to both sides. Because really I do not know which of the two beliefs is the more valid. Although, in fact, I support rather the faith of the heretics. But that is simply because my communications and relations with the heretics...
...Pacelli became Pope Pius XII. Monsignor Montini, as a Substitute Secretary of State, was soon embroiled in the delicate Vatican maneuvering between the enemy forces of World War II. It was Montini, evidence suggests, who coined the famous phrase that Pope Pius uttered on the eve of that conflict: "Nothing is lost by peace; everything may be lost...