Word: feuded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Backstage, a personal feud between Paget and Watson fed the fires of an already overheated controversy...
...case in point: in a speech at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., last March, Bishop James Rausch, general secretary of the U.S. Catholic Conference, intervened in a feud between some liberal Catholic biblical scholars and several right-wing Catholic columnists who had charged the scholars with heresy. Taking the liberals' side, Rausch accused the journalists of scholarly incompetence; he deplored them as "third parties" who were trying to usurp the bishops' power to decide what is "orthodox" in Catholic theology. Freedom of the press, he said, "should not protect them from public criticism and public rebuke...
Romeo and Juliet is unique in Shakespeare's output for containing, in the Chorus' Prologue, the playwright's own view of the overall import of the sad outcome, which he attributes to evil destiny and the parents' feud. Romeo and Juliet themselves are not tragic figures in the classical sense. It is the parents who exhibit a "tragic flaw," and thus are made to suffer through the needless loss of their children...
There has been other evidence that the radical-moderate feud has heated up. Over the past two weeks, posters have appeared on walls within view of the municipal office building accusing "Official XX" of "keeping the lid" on the anti-Confucius campaign. The target is believed to be Peking's top official, Wu Teh, a moderate and a supporter of Premier Chou Enlai. However, the moderates struck back with posters defending "Official XX." They denounced the authors of the earlier posters as "bad elements" who "indulge in fabrication, lies and calumny...
...angry and confused young man. When he struck out, as he did often enough to lead the league for four consecutive years, he would toss his bat to the ground or slam his batting helmet onto the dugout bench. His morale was not helped by a bitter feud that quickly developed with Finley. This dispute, which began over salary and spread in 1970 to Jackson's quality of play, reached a peak late that summer. While crossing the plate after hitting a grand-slam home run, he saluted Finley with an obscene gesture. Finley demanded, and got, a written...