Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dostoevsky was under especially heavy emotional strain when he met Anna. In addition to his brother's debts, his stepson made extravagant demands on his dwindling resources. His beloved first wife had died two years previously. A bitter conflict emerged between Anna and his late wife's family for control of Fyodor's time and money, a conflict which she wins by convincing him to travel abroad with...
...Israel, their homeland. By equating Zionism and racial discrimination, the United Nations denies the right of national sovereignty to one particular people, the Jews, thus subverting their own principles and perpetuating the very practice it purports to condemn. Morever, the United Nations' attempt to deal with the Arab-Israeli conflict through linguistic obfuscation limits its capacity to reconcile the claims of the two vying national liberation movements in the Middle East--the Jewish and Palestinian--such a task would be more difficult, but significantly more meaningful than the U.N.'s current verbal antics...
...guarantees agricultural workers for the first time the right to decide through free, secret-ballot elections whether they will be represented by the United Farm Workers, the Teamsters, or no union at all. But the law is no guarantee of a speedy and just resolution to that bitter conflict. The votes still need to be certified, and the contracts still need to be signed. Until then, the UFW boycott against non-union grapes and lettuce and against Gallo wines will and should remain in effect...
Horgan's elegant, periodic prose, reminiscent of the 19th century histories of Prescott and Parkman, is at its most eloquent during these confrontations of culture. Horgan views the rebel Martinez as a tragic figure, lost "in the ashes of the old consuming conflict, in the pathos of learned agonies spent in a footless cause." The author also brings rich life to less dramatic episodes: his long, detailed accounts of the journeys over trackless desert and plateau develop a hypnotic rhythm of their own. Even minor ecclesiastical skirmishes are brilliantly employed-Lamy's exasperation with Vatican bureaucracy simultaneously reveals...
...main reasons for Mozambique's unity, which distinguishes its situation from the conflict in Angola, lies in the nature of Portuguese involvement in Mozambique. Mozambique has few mineral resources, and Portugal never invested as much capital there as did in its other Southern African colonies. Mozambique's industrial sector is restricted to the coastal area--thus most of the country geographically was not penetrated by Portuguese economic interests, and continued to be based on traditional peasant agriculture. During its ten years of fighting the colonial administration, Frelimo was able to organize the inland population, and the Portuguese could not undermine...