Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Carol Grodzins, director of the Edward S. Mason Fellowship Program of the Harvard Institute for International Development, one of Bhumi's advisers, Bhumi would not send interns to a region where there was a real threat of violence due to military conflict...
...Lisa seem to complement each other so well throughout most of the play, the emotional explosion in the end carries a great deal of power. Both characters are appealing in their own way, so the audience is confronted with a difficult challenge: whose side should be taken in this conflict of words...
...individual. Each scene requires her to be different person, a challenge which Jones handles gracefully. Her transition from a fawning grad-student with a teddy-bear backpack to an accomplished writer giving a speech at the 92nd St. Y is both striking and fluid. Jones' performance adeptly displays the conflict between Lisa's love for her mentor and her need to establish her own life as a writer...
Ultimately what comes between Ruth and Lisa is a territorial conflict, but the material at stake--personal stories--is invisible. Though Margulies doesn't force the play into a statement of right and wrong, he does communicate the preciousness of stories. Lisa has followed the perennial piece of advice to "write what you know," but Ruth thinks that Lisa has taken this too literally by exploiting the story of her past. Although the rift in their relationship can be contemplated as an ethical dilemma, Margulies makes a stronger argument for the inevitability of literary inheritance. In the end, the play...
...Brittan downplayed the fear of global conflict between the dollar and the Euro...