Word: neighborly
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...same disquieting signals. Somewhere, some mysterious source was spewing dangerous radiation into the atmosphere, into the air that people and plants were breathing. By now thoroughly frightened, the Swedes quickly confirmed that the source was not in their country. They immediately turned their suspicions southward, to their powerful neighbor, the Soviet Union...
...times and places where conditions allowed. Today in most parts of the world it does not exist or is not understood. It is difficult to achieve in tribal, rigidly hierarchical or other traditional societies. It requires a sophisticated calculus of tolerance: the notion that if I take away my neighbor's freedom for some immediate gain today, he may take away mine tomorrow. It requires an ability to compromise, to restrain religious and racial passions. It requires a highly unusual view of authority, which in many places is seen as necessary for order and national survival, for national morale...
...proclaimed idealism of their friend Gregers Werle (Christopher McCann)--who moves in and reorders their lives with disastrous consequences--mingles religious fanaticism with a rich man's easy disdain for money. Fittingly, the production ends without the comfort of catharsis, in a fistfight between the unrepentant Gregers and a neighbor, a drunken but discerning doctor. The incidents come basically from Ibsen, conveyed with a rawness modern audiences rarely see in his work. Even in this highly symbolic play, he makes a harrowing social realist...
...years for attempted manslaughter and other crimes, as the probable successor to Castellano; some reports suggested that he might have been involved in the killing. Piecyk also read that after Gotti's son Frank, 12, was killed in 1979 when struck by a car driven by Gotti's neighbor John Favara, the neighbor mysteriously vanished; Favara has never been found and is believed to have been murdered...
Honduras is the one anomaly in Central America: though it is somewhat wary of its southern neighbor Nicaragua, in fact it is more fearful of its historic rival, El Salvador. Indeed, some Hondurans fear that if Duarte ever mops up the Salvadoran rebels he will turn his American-trained army on Honduras in order to settle some long-standing border disputes...