Word: quarrelling
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...raging on two fronts, his little station in Czechoslovakia is more worried about its own private conflicts. The paunchy stationmaster constantly clashes with the raunchy dispatcher (Josef Somr), whose life is a round of love-making on the waiting-room sofa. Milos refuses to take sides in the quarrel, and soon earns the enmity of both antagonists. A stiff-necked German official gives him lectures on the nobility of war, which he fails to understand. A nubile girl, Jitka Bendova, entices him into her bed, where he fails to perform. Suicidally, he slashes his wrists-and again flops...
...about. Svetlana remembers Daddy as a "loving father who gave out tobacco-smelling kisses" and wrote kind letters promising his daughter pomegranates from the Black Sea coast. She tries to dispose of the old rumor that Stalin murdered her mother, who was his second wife. They had a little quarrel at a Kremlin banquet in honor of the 15th anniversary of the November revolution, Svetlana concedes, but she insists that her mother shot herself that evening. "The fact is," says Svetlana, "that Stalin himself never killed anything in his life except hawks and hares, and did not know...
...voice crackled over the radio and Girardin instinctively tensed. "Watch out for stolen car," the dispatcher advised. Girardin's well-wrinkled face was wreathed in a smile. "We are just about back to normal," he said. "All we need now is a report of a domestic quarrel...
Violence can be a simple, rational reaching for a goal, in its legal form of war or its illegal form of crime. It can often be irrational, as in a seemingly senseless killing or quarrel. But the distinction between irrational and rational violence is not easily drawn. Even the insane murderer kills to satisfy a need entirely real to him. Violence is often caused by "displaced aggression," when anger is forced to aim at a substitute target. Every psychologist knows that a man might beat his child because he cannot beat his boss. And a man may even murder because...
...unfaithful to him, even when he went so far as to place advertisements for cuckolders in the Vienna Tageblatt. Anguished Divorce. She did try to make little compromises that might have held the marriage together. Occasionally she flew off the handle and slapped her husband around. During a literary quarrel with him, she gave him a good thrashing with one of the whips he conveniently left lying around the house. But it was not enough: by now, Sacher-Masoch wanted the recriminations and anguish of a divorce. After ten years of talking about it, he got it. Biographer Cleugh...