Word: frictions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BLACK COMEDY. Fireworks are best in the dark, and when the lights blow out in a London flat, a situation fraught with friction sets off sparks of hilarity. An agile and acrobatic cast keeps Peter Shaffer's latest dramatic exercise in amusing motion...
...actual impact of this potential vote remains to be seen, a third-party bid could keep many Southern Negroes at home on Election Day by stimulating K.K.K.-type intimidation, or encourage them to vote for extremist black parties. In any event, a Wallace campaign seems certain to exacerbate racial friction wherever he is a candidate...
Despite their pleas for "friendly relations," their relationship is very swiftly--and unfortunately--degenerating into one of competition and back-biting, rather than cooperation. This friction is to some extent the result of temporary misunderstandings and mistrust. But it will become more extensive--and more detrimental--unless both sides recognize their common ground...
...junior faculty members protested. The Eight reported a year later that a system with fewer non-tenured graduations was necessary to reduce tension between junior and senior Faculty members. "The misgivings of the junior personnel of the Faculty," they wrote, "cannot. . .be wholly explained by the natural friction between youth and middle age, or by the inevitable heart-burnings of a competitive system opera- ting under the exigencies of a frozen budget...
...want to talk about that." Then, in a letter to TIME, he described the report as "almost wholly inaccurate." Wrote Kennedy: "It is one thing to give an account of a discussion between public figures concerning a public matter which was, as I have said, 'not without friction'; it is quite another to ascribe fictitious profanity or threats to the participants. I did not -nor would I-use the kind of lan guage you attributed to me in speaking to the President of the United States." Under Secretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach, who witnessed the meeting, also described...