Word: conflict
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
McGuinness said he is optimistic about the future, refusing in questions from the audience to think too far beyond the settlement of the current conflict to the creation of a unified country...
...intend to keep our nerve... we have a responsibility to try to plot a course away from conflict, away from inequality, away from injustice," he said. "This can only be solved at the negotiating table. Why should people lose their lives...
Hogue takes this passage as follows: "The great man will be struck down in the day by a thunderbolt, the evil deed predicted by the bearer of a petition: according to the prediction another falls at night time, conflict in Reims, London and pestilence in Tuscany...
...what about the last line's "conflict" in the three locales? Hogue suggests that they refer to various disturbances around the time of Robert Kennedy's assassination in 1968. But, at a loss for a problem in Reims at that time, he simply concludes that "Reims is a synecdoche [part-for-the-whole] for France." Funny how that works, since London isn't used as a synecdoche for England and Tuscany is mentioned instead of Florence...
Kennedy never resolved the conflict--nor have we, nor will we. He was a driven philanderer at one moment. In the next he was a grand romantic who, with insight, eloquence and wit, sought a place among the legends Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle and Franklin Roosevelt...