Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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KENNEDY'S work is impressively subtitled "Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000." He does okay for the first four centuries. The last two hundred pages, devoted to "the strategies and economics of today and tomorrow," predict the eventual rise of Japan to great power status and the United States' abdication of its dominant position. It is here that Kennedy commits a historian's most dreadful crime: trying to predict the future from the past. In fact, it leads one to wonder whether Kennedy has not interpreted the past in light of his understanding of the present. Current...
...clearest indication yet that Gorbachev is moving rapidly to extricate his country from the conflict he has termed a "bleeding wound...
...know even less about why wars never happen at all. For the last 40 years we have lived in a bipolar international system with hegemonic powers competing for territory, goods and prestige. Judging by many theories about great powers and international conflict, the United States and the Soviet Union should have gone to war by now. They have had many opportunities--the closest being the Cuban Missile Crisis--where the two countries could have initiated a general war, but didn...
Instead of calmly gauging how to pressure the Soviets, Kennedy and his men were confused and very willing to make several concessions to Khrushchev. Scared by the prospect that Khrushchev would escalate any conflict, the White House was afraid that any move against the Soviets would touch off a nuclear holocaust. Eventually, a dovish Kennedy pledged never to invade Cuba and implicitly agreed to Khrushchev's demand that American nuclear missiles in Turkey be removed in exchange for a withdrawal of Soviet nuclear weapons from Cuba. The transcripts show that the United States did not "win" the Cuban Missile Crisis...
...standard interpretation of The Cherry Orchard is, in the phrase of Critic Robert Brustein, as a "melodramatic conflict between a despoiler and $ his victims." The purported despoiler is Lopakhin, an upstart peasant turned real estate developer who plans to raze the family's mansion and orchard to create a cottage camp for vacationers. In place of this tragic vision of culture under attack, some Soviet productions have hailed Lopakhin as a visionary forerunner of the people's state. Either way, the play becomes didactic, and its undeniably comic moments work at the expense of its humanity...