Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most African countries, and a new generation of academically trained theologians is moving into leadership positions in the churches. Tensions between these two groups of new elites--those from Sandhurst, Saint Cy and West Point, and those from Oxford, Union, Strassbourg, and Tubingen--is a source of serious conflict between Church and State in Africa today...
...time this country could become a shining example of brotherhood among the races and could play a decisive role in eradicating the true enemies of man in Africa-ignorance, disease and hunger. This is a dream many of us have. It is this dream that has brought us into conflict with the government, but a dream nevertheless that we pray will one day become a reality...
There are simple drawings in Steinberg's oeuvre, but very few simple situations. He delights in apparently simple ones: the conflict between a hero and a dragon, for instance. But then we find the fight is rigged. The hero and the monster are actually partners; they have a deal; without a dragon, what can a hero do? One drawing makes this point with particular elegance: a new kind of adversary, a man with a cannon, is drawing a bead on the dragon. The hero is about to save his enemy by attacking the gunman from the rear. In another drawing...
...title of the talk is "The PCI and the Crisis of Italy's Political Economy." Emmerich's parochialism is evident in his assumption that any attempt to apply "Communist dogma" to a "real social situation" will be of merely quaint interest. If he can only see foreign class conflict and byzantine political plots in the current crisis in Italy, then perhaps Emmerich would be better off letting Napolitano speak for himself and should simply content himself with announcing events. Paul Levenson '79 and Eric Gilioli...
Slade doesn't shy away from conflict or confrontation; his characters occasionally go for each other's jugular, and pieces of their protective covering fleck off after each battle. Scottie begins to understand that by never committing himself to anyone he has hurt those to whom he should be closest. As father and son grow more acquainted, they recognize themselves in each other; Jud's sobriety is a reaction to Scottie's geniality, and each is locked into an extremely isolating mode of behavior...