Word: quarrelling
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...partners are in full accord on how to deal with the I.R.A., and they have no quarrel with Jack Lynch's decision last fall to jail a handful of I.R.A. extremists. "I've been very strong on the internal security question for years, long before Fianna Fáil was," Cosgrave told TIME Correspondent Jordan Bonfante last week. The coalition's record on the I.R.A., adds O'Brien, is "more thoroughly consistent" than the former government's-meaning that the new regime will be just as tough as Lynch was and maybe tougher...
...concept could be used against hearings, on the ground that they have become an unconstitutional impediment to fairness. For the moment, though, the courts see hearings as a new and crucial element in the effort to extend justice into ever more areas of U.S. life. Americans can hardly quarrel with that perception...
Hussein, who was accompanied to the U.S. by his lissome new wife Alia, sought to draw Nixon's attention to a recent mood of conciliation among Arabs, who for the moment feel that they cannot defeat Israel militarily. Before leaving Amman, the King patched up his long-running quarrel with Egypt and Syria over the status of the Palestinian fedayeen in Jordan, at a meeting of the Arab League Defense Council. As long as the fedayeen are kept in check, Hussein would agree to the re-establishment of the Eastern Front, a largely meaningless unification of Arab armies under...
...post-Modernist literature; in this, I mean the tedious reproduction of lived life naturalism, as opposed to the rich tradition of European Realism, which exaggerated human experience, celebrated a wide historical consciousness, and reconciled real conditions with desire. No reader, to whom what is actual is anathema, would quarrel with Osip Mandelstam's axiom that "The only thing that is real is the work itself;" when he concludes, though, that the artist "desires no other paradise than existence," Mandelstam reveals the divergence between readers and artists. Existence, which to the writer is a paradise, is to the reader a veritable...
...Complicated. The stark isolation of the place made her feel cut off from things. "When my girl friend and I quarrel and she wants to go away and she is all packed," Bergman told one interviewer matter of factly, "everything is always too complicated. First she has to drive by a very complicated way through the woods. Then the ferry boat leaves only on the hour. From there she has to find a flight. So she ends up staying...