Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trying to kill me as a performer." The suit was settled out of court in August. To the surprise of many of his listeners, Miller then joined liberal-leaning WCFL, a station owned by the Chicago Federation of Labor. Explained Station Manager Lou Witz: "We feel a conflict of opinions gives more interest to the station...
Radical Fringe. Miller certainly provides plenty of conflict. In a typical hour of programming, he devotes 30 minutes to standard middle-of-the-road pop music: a Frank Sinatra ballad, a Lawrence Welk instrumental and, again and again, Andy Williams singing Battle Hymn of the Republic. Sixteen minutes is given over to smoothly delivered commercials, five minutes to news, and nine minutes to "commentaries on our times." Samples: - On law and order: "I don't agree there's a civil war in this country between blacks and whites. I think there's a great civil war between...
...accommodate a wide and sometimes mettlesome variety of religious and ethnic patterns. If these two minorities, black and Jew ? each with its distinctive and essential contributions to American society ? cannot get along, then the viability of the American experiment in pluralism is thrown into doubt. Thus, the conflict takes on symbolic values far more threatening than its actual substance...
...billion-a-year Transportation Department. But he was not too adept in dealing with Congress, and that stymied his efforts to bring the Maritime Administration under the department's jurisdiction and to relieve overburdened airports. In Boyd, the Illinois Central may also be getting some trouble; conflict-of-interest questions have been raised about the Department of Transportation's grant of $25.2 million to improve commuter services on the Illinois Central. The grant was made in December while Boyd was under consideration as the railroad's president. Boyd disassociated himself from the grant, but Secretary of Transportation...
...women of the play-a farmer's wife, his daughter and his maid-are delighted with this "saucy bird." O'Casey saw the repressed and persecuted Irish female as the repository of all that was open and joyous and life-loving in his native land. The conflict between them and the naysaying, money-hungry men is the essential drama of Cock-A-Doodle Dandy -with Protestant O'Casey's pet hate, the Roman Catholic Church, as archvillain. In the end, the women are roughed up and driven away to find "a place where life resembles life...