Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...focusing on the irresponsibility of the middle class, Lessing is able to comment on the nature of class conflict in Britain. most of the Lovatt children conform to society, but Ben's malevolent presence forces them out of the house to live with relatives. David and Harriet are left with only their youngest children--Ben and the sensitive Paul. Ben becomes a force for revolution within the home, and a window on the discontent around it. His rebellion causes Harriet to neglect Paul, whose quiet grace infuriates Ben. Lessing's parable of class conflict demonstrates that in a society which...
...Betty Buckley, a 1983 Tony winner for Cats) crackle with longing. The daughter is love starved and so innocent that she does not know what is happening when she menstruates in the high school shower. Her mother is aquiver with barely suppressed sexuality, yet ablaze with guilty memory. The conflict between the girl's aching to be normal and her mother's fear that she will go astray aspires to metaphysical tragedy. The last image, on a temple-like staircase, is of Mother, Daughter and what seems to be a Holy Friend, and the final gesture is a mutual mother...
...slums that is home to 250,000 Shi'ites. Fighting was suspended after telephone consultations between Syrian President Hafez Assad and Iranian President Ali Khamenei. But the next day, the fragile alliance between Damascus and Tehran was taxed as Hizballah fighters broke the truce, drawing Syrian troops into the conflict...
...books leave an outsider bemused. To be sure, CBS News has gone through troubled times, and the questions raised here are serious ones for all of TV journalism. But much of this inside stuff is little more than the predictable sturm und drang of corporate politicking. Couldn't the conflict between yesterday people and today people, for example, be explained less ominously as the normal tendency of new management to favor its own people over the previous regime's? Aren't clashes like the one between Rather and Joyce common to any large organization employing strong-willed creative people...
Meanwhile, some human rights officials are afraid that Schafer, if pushed too far, might take drastic action. Said Baar: "I fear for the lives of the Dignidad people if it comes to conflict there. I am certain that shootings cannot be avoided, and I say that out of deep conviction...