Word: quarreling
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...some achieve majesty by all the while seeming to seek after something smaller. Athol Fugard uses deceptively simple language and stories to explore vividly specific individuals, yet he makes every wrong step between them seem a natural metaphor for some larger collision of mankind. He knows that the domestic quarrel is the central tragedy of any age. It is this pained acuity about the buffeting nature of daily life, even more than his passionate denunciation of the social system in his native South Africa, that makes Fugard the greatest active playwright in the English-speaking world...
...stubborn than any grudging relative: the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. Paolo alleged that Aldo evaded substantial U.S. corporate and income taxes by squirreling away company funds in a series of overseas front operations. That accusation has sparked an IRS investigation that may prove to be more damaging than any quarrel within the House of Gucci...
...began when a bunch of jocks in Hawaii fell to arguing about which was the tougher sport, biking, running or swimming. Out of the quarrel was born the first Ironman Triathlon: 15 seemingly crackbrained humans on a 2.4-mile ocean swim followed by a 112-mile bike race followed by a 26.2-mile marathon run. That was in 1978. This year, with the distances in many cases shortened to a so-called tinman's grasp, 1.2 million Americans are expected to take part in 2,100 triathlons. The event is being called the fastest-growing participatory sport in the nation...
...smoldering quarrel between the Fundamentalists and moderates intensified in 1969, when the S.B.C. Sunday School Board began issuing serially the multivolume Broadman Bible Commentary. The project was established to summarize Southern Baptist thinking. The 56 theologians involved made mild use of "higher criticism" (theorizing about literary sources underlying Bible texts), and the introduction to the series undermined the concept of inerrancy. In 1970 the annual convention forced a rewrite of the program's Genesis commentary to make it more conservative...
...wife extends beyond the grave. When Clara dies, the inconsolable widower begins wearing a suede pouch hanging under his shirt. "In it were his wife's false teeth, which he treated as a token of good luck and expiation." Indeed, he had knocked out her teeth in a quarrel years earlier...