Word: friction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minority are discontented with the existing state of things, let them set to work and exert themselves until they become the majority." Fine, unless a minority is of a different race, religion or culture, and has no hope of be coming a majority. Then there must either be continual friction, as in Northern Ireland or Cyprus, or else a guarantee of protected minority rights that a majority cannot overturn. John C. Calhoun believed the South to be such a permanent minority in need of protection. So he argued for a "concurrent majority" by which Government "regards interests as well...
...Internal Friction...
After the 1967 strike there was some "friction," Getz said, between members of the Graphic Arts International Union, which had struck, and the Printing Office's other union, the Boston Typographical Union, which...
...that protrudes is hammered down." The qualities of individualism, original thinking and outspokenness are not admired. What counts is reliability, confidence that the chosen man will not violate the defined perimeter of consensus. Within that perimeter, he should have a talent for manipulation and accommodation so as to minimize friction and confrontation...
...shallow, vigorous flurry of space and line around the vestiges of a head. With De Kooning, the energy and propulsion of the line tend to abolish the usual distinctions between painting and drawing; line turns out to be equal to brush mark in its power to suggest density, friction, displacement, tactility and all the other signs by which we recognize the life of forms. It seems likely that in the future, De Kooning's originality as a draftsman will be seen to reside in his power to cross the bound aries of category and process: painting as drawing...