Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Governor Faubus, why don't you talk about your anxieties?" the mediators might have asked in the soft tones prescribed by the experts at "Conflict Management...
...idealism, so that these days one can unironically speak of Harvard's "race relations infrastructure." One assumes that the Freedom Riders might have received some informal training (about how not to get beat up or killed) before setting out; how they might have benefitted from technical instruction from "Conflict Management...
...setback: it doesn't manage to outgrow its fairy tale from. We have the castle, the king and the queen. We have the princess who doesn't fit into her role, who pretends to an identity of her own, who steps out of line. We have a sort of conflict, a sort of quest, and eventually our princes resolves to achieve 'success,' which is defined as eventually assuming the same as that of her father. Throughout the book, characters remain confined in their predetermined roles; they are kept at a distance from the reader, never moving outside of their predictable...
...twists sprinkled in from time to time. There are so many names and details to remember that the director often provides scenes that reiterate redundant plot developments for the less observant or the temporarily narcoleptic viewer. First, there are Paul (Connery) and Hannah (Rowlands), as older married couple experiencing conflict on the eve of the reconfirmation of their wedding vows. Trent (Stewart) is a slick lawyer pursuing Meredith (Anderson), a neurotic theater director. Strangely, these two seem to be the only characters that work at anything other than finding their true love. Mildred (Ellen Burstyn) bonds with...
Attorneys reached by yesterday said the conflict raises interesting questions about the definition of assault, the basis for criminal charges and the rights of disabled people...