Word: quarrelling
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...variations of Moscow-oriented Communism. But leaders of the Balkans, motivated mainly by pragmatic economics and a desire to keep big powers from exploiting the region's problems for their own purposes, are making efforts to end old disputes. Yugoslavia, for example, has ended its old quarrel with Albania and is granting greater autonomy to the Albanian minority within its borders...
Flannery O'Connor is seldom compassionate. She means it about that perpetual shot in the head. Her quarrel with people is that they cannot or will not see the wonder and terror of their existence. "Do you ever look inside and see what you are not?" shouts a crippled daughter at her bovine mother...
Park's harsh repression was the latest move in a growing conflict between his government and the nation's students. The quarrel started with student complaints about compulsory military training, which soon escalated into demonstrations against high-level corruption in Park's government. Clamping down last week, the President ordered that any student who opposed military training be expelled from school and immediately conscripted...
...pals illusion and reality come out of the evening relatively unscathed, and certainly as mysterious as ever. Someday some great play will stop by and solve their quarrel for ever, and then where will playwrights be? Until then you might as well see the double bill at the Loeb Ex. One out of two aren't bad odds, when it's for free...
...would be a tiny tempest indeed, a disagreement among a small group of men over the editorship of a publication that sells slightly more than 70,000 copies every three months. But the publication is Foreign Affairs-the most prestigious journal of its kind in the world. And the quarrel is a family matter for a major segment of the nation's intellectual and political Establishment-the nearly 1,500 members of the Council on Foreign Relations...