Word: quarrelling
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...godfather a traveling Baptist preacher, but Vereen studied six months in a Manhattan seminary. "I was always being saved," he says of his upbringing, "getting on my knees and ridding myself of the demon." Though he quit the seminary and later had what he calls a "little lovers' quarrel" with the church, he says he went into the theater "because it allowed me to reach people in so many capacities, to build a frame and fill it up with the spirit...
...Antigone: "The pains that men will take to come to pain." The only comfort may lie in the usual hangover from hubris. A nation that never doubted its invincibility and its innocence, as if those two were one, should never be that awfully certain of itself again. Who can quarrel with Halberstam here? The danger may be that, given the notorious wide swings of the American pendulum, the next phase will be corrosive self-doubt and excessive withdrawal from the world. With luck, though, the loss of hubris may lead to a new realism without fatigue or despair...
...victory would not be likely to bury the McGovern-raised issues entirely, but only drive them underground for a while. They could easily re-emerge-:soon and with force. If Nixon is compelled to propose a tax increase, as he probably will be, he will touch off an acrimonious quarrel about tax preferences for corporations, investors and high-income people. If the tax increase is needed largely to pay for greater military outlays, the argument over spending priorities will break out again in full cry. Conversely, if Nixon's budget hold-down causes the economy to slow and unemployment...
...quarrel extends to matters of considerably less importance. At a recent Cabinet meeting, they clashed over a proposal to put Allon in charge of a seemingly innocuous government information program. Earlier Dayan bridled at the choice of ex-Chief of Staff Haim Bar-Lev (rather than Dayan himself) to write an article on Israel's military defense for next year's official 25th anniversary album...
...should be able to hold it." Tanaka's hour-long audience with Chairman Mao Tse-tung at midweek was equally jocular. "Is the fighting over?" Mao asked, referring to Tanaka's talks with the Chinese Premier. "With Chou," Mao went on, "it's imperative that you quarrel first. Only when you quarrel first can you become a fast friend...