Word: quarreling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...although I would prefer a shade more restraint in the main characters, I have no such quarrel with the supporting performances. Between them Victoria Weyler, Ronald Witt, Bill Christian, Alzada Knickerbocker, and Belford Lawson take care of the other eighteen parts very nicely indeed. Each one of them does at least one really good role. And Mr. Johnson redeems himself as Warty Bliggans, the toad who believes that "the earth exists to grow toadstools for me to sit under...
...after a family quarrel, Jean Starr decided to commit suicide. When she opened her bedroom window in Zanesville, Ohio, she was afraid to jump and compromised by trying to beat out her brains with a hairbrush. This serio comic vein runs throughout her new book, which describes a lifelong love affair with art and with artists, "those people who have been most meaningful...
...brother, and grandson of Methodist preachers, Smith wrote his book late nights, sitting at the kitchen table. What motivated him was a lover's quarrel with the church. For he believes that "it behooves us who love the church to do what we can to eliminate the ridiculous and the trivial so that the glory, the dedication and the relevance may be seen unobscured...
...Bahutu-Watutsi quarrel reached its peak late in 1963, when Watutsi warriors raided Rwanda in bands called inyenzi (cockroaches). The irate Bahutu responded by chopping off the legs of thousands of Watutsis and floating the remains down the Ruzizi River...
...18th century abode that now serves as Poland's Cabinet building. Though the meeting had ostensibly been called to discuss defense matters, a more pressing issue to the East European Reds was the imminent (March 1) preparatory conference called by the Kremlin to discuss Moscow's ideological quarrel with Peking. This was the same monster rally originally scheduled by Nikita Khrushchev for last December. Kosygin and Brezhnev postponed the showdown's date and changed the tenor of the proposed conference from truculence to "objective" discussion of Russo-Chinese differences...