Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...existence was beginning to exact its toll. Never one to take care of himself, he had been suffering for years from the cumulative effects of tropical diseases, concussions, bee stings and snakebites. He had also seen his son assume the directorship of the National Museums of Kenya. Now the conflict between the two became so intense that it threatened to split the family. Mary began to spend more and more time away at Olduvai, while Louis and Richard pointedly avoided each other. Says Richard: "He was a sick old man at the end of his career, and he found...
This is not simply because the U.S. role in that conflict ended with a whimper; unreconstructed Southerners and the Irish have shown how immortal ballads rise from lost causes. But Viet Nam dragged on too bitterly and too long to be tucked comfortably into a corner of the mind. Between the memorable images of self-immolating monks and returning American P.O.W.s, there stretched a decade of contradictory violence and rhetoric that splintered the country. Trying to remember, much less grasp, that history now seems like reopening a scar...
Unfortunately, Fast's life contains more dramatic and moral conflict than his new novel, The Immigrants. It is the first book in a projected trilogy that will follow a number of families from 1888 into the present. Universal already plans to film the saga as a 36-part TV series, for which Fast should gross $975,000. The paperback rights have been sold...
Vellucci, who said he thinks his role as moderator at the forum will not be a conflict of interest, said he hopes to recapture the politics of "yesteryear" when "all the public forums and meetings were held in the streets, not at teas and coffee klatches...
...potential undoubtedly is there. Roosevelt's presidency hardly lacked the political conflict and turmoil that gives birth to powerful historical drama. His glib tongue seldom strained to reduce the quirks of everyday life to irresistibly quotable witticisms or the sentiments of his countrymen to stirring rhetoric. Schary's script, however, never allows enough room for the full power of Roosevelt's formidable personality, as portrayed by the ubiquitous Robert Vaughn, to reveal itself. Before a scene can build sufficient dramtic tension, an unsatisfying and petty denouement intrudes. Before the audience can become relaxed with Roosevelt's humorous side, the script...