Word: conflict
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...importantly, both produce works that focus on counteracting the dominant voices in British and American history by illuminating an alternative discourse. But in “Small Island,” Levy succeeds where Smith falls short.Levy dexterously handles the profound and complicated themes of a novel whose central conflict is the migration of Jamaican soldiers to England to fight in World War II. Unlike Smith’s sprawling epics, “Small Island” is a multigenerational work that draws its narrative lines neatly along principle characters who take turns recounting their stories. Frank and unassuming...
...developed countries, such as the U.S., that have the infrastructure to compile more detailed population-wide medical records, disease surveillance in places like the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a large central African country with few doctors, few roads, limited medical infrastructure and a recent history of bloody conflict, is a much more difficult undertaking. Officials have trouble counting births and deaths in some regions, let alone getting a sense of how many people may have suffered from a particular disease...
...Jack Donaghy and Liz Lemon going to hook up? -Scott Jorna, LondonWell, if they do, I hope they read my book about the pitfalls of high-conflict divorce. No, they're not going to hook up. The formula is better when they don't. Keep people wanting them to hook up, because once they do, the tension is gone...
...them would get along, because in [writer David] Mamet's world, human beings really behave like animals. They slaughter each other and eat each other and hunt each other and so forth. That's the opposite, I think, of Donaghy, because as pompous as he is, he avoids conflict as much as possible...
...Happy Days,” but Shanghai’s teenage population had a noticeable shortage of Arthur Fonzarellis. And even if “Happy Days” is a terrible example of rebellious art, it is indicative of how Westerners take issues of conflict and rebellion in their art for granted. On top of a storied disinclination toward disestablishmentarianism, today’s China is a country in which social protests go unreported and family members routinely and quietly disappear. The longer I was there, the more the Fonz started to look like Sid Vicious.So...