Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Avenged Grievances. Suddenly the battle of Soweto was transformed from a black-white conflict into a fight between blacks-and government officials were not at all displeased. Indeed there were some charges that they helped provoke the change. Several black reporters said they heard police officers exhorting Zulus to "go out and kill" their enemies, but one police chief branded this "an infamous lie." At the least, some Soweto residents said, the police watched from their antiriot Hippo vehicles without taking action as the Zulu warriors scoured the streets and burst into homes in search of what they called "cheeky...
More and more, tennis is the sport in which American domestic hopes most visibly converge and conflict, the recreation that most remarkably reveals those double-fault lines in American marriage?a want of kindness, a shortage of manners. The swift transformation of a game once played mainly by the happy few?mannerly, immaculately clad and, to the popular mind, a bit sissified?into a mass middle-class mania, which may soon be pursued by more women than men, has already worked a number of apparently permanent small changes in American social life...
...destroyed by looking bad. The people who must win to be happy, and the people for whom making good shots is what matters. All of them run risks of great humiliation in tennis. Along with cooperative pleasure, hostility, subservience, competitiveness, narcissism are all at play, sometimes in conflict with one another. Inner conflicts occur, however, when subconscious primitive urges (read id) and value systems (read super ego) clash. A player about to realize a "forbidden desire"?from simply winning to smashing a ball at a female opponent?is a player in trouble. There are other divided and ultimately unstrung...
...victorious Ford team, only one irksome conflict remained. Although it was 11 o'clock, the platform had yet to be approved. Reagan's saddened troops were still determined to add a self-styled "morality" amendment that not very obliquely assailed the Administration's foreign policy. The code words included praise for Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the dissident Soviet writer whom Ford had refused to invite to the White House; criticism of pursuing détente?a word that Ford had banned ?without insisting on concurrent Soviet concessions; an attack on "secret agreements, hidden from our people"; and a reference to "Helsinki," where...
...This conflict between sense and sensationalism causes some problems. Koestler is fearful, for example, that his book might be used to undercut the foundations of Israel. If most Israelis are really descended from Caucasian nomads who stamped themselves kosher 1,200 years ago, how can they claim...