Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Said he: "The great outward journey of our nation is based on an inward journey, the peace that issues from an inner strength of awareness of the will of God. We cannot proceed without it." He was warmly applauded when he added: "I have never detected or experienced any conflict between God's will and my political duties...
...hapless California officials who are now moving gingerly to bow to the will of the majority cannot, however, fail to hear the clash of other voices. Indeed, there was a tinge of class conflict in the campaign for Proposition 13, with possible portents of racial trouble in the simmering summer months. By and large, homeowners from the middle and upper classes, justly aggrieved by their rising tax burden, had led the tax revolt. But worried blacks and Hispanics in California feared, with some cause, that as government turned more frugal, they would be hurt the most...
...child's resolution of the oneness-separateness conflict between the ages of 18 and 36 months, says Kaplan, will shape, but not determine, the adult it will become. "To the extent that a child is trapped in imperfect reconciliation at the age of three, it will be more difficult for it to take advantage of what life offers later on, but it won't be impossible...
...ways of being a teen-ager existed side by side. The poignancy of Grease derived from that juxtaposition: Can sweet Sandy, representing the Sandra Dee side of the coin, find happiness with dangerous Danny, the dark, flip side of it? Kleiser simply flattens out this conflict. It is possible, of course, that Olivia Newton-John does not have it within her to portray a girl deeply tempted to break out of her square cultural mold, but we know that John Travolta has the stuff to do Danny wonderfully. It seems criminal not to use the stud's drive...
That compassion is evident once again in his newest work, Creve Coeur. Unfortunately, some of the gifts that have made Williams such a formidable dramatist are sadly in abeyance. The pulse of conflict beats feebly. The surge of musical eloquence, which was once like a river cresting in flood, is in Creve Coeur little more than a ripple on a placid pond...