Word: quarrelling
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...inexplicable wrestling match between two men . . . Don't worry about the reasons for this fight but make yourself share in the human stakes." The advice is well-taken, because the reasons for the struggle seem decidedly artificial from the start. Shlink a Chinese timber dealer, purposely provokes a fatal quarrel with George Garga, an employee in a moth-eaten lending library. When Garga refuses to sell his opinion of a book to Shlink and his three thugs, the Chinaman concludes that he is a man of spirit an man worthy of his enmity. Garga takes up the challenge to combat...
...unresolved quarrel over the Canal would have badly embarrassed and encumbered President Kennedy's Latin American policies, but President Johnson may have decided that the domestic political damage from concessions to Panama would outweigh the benefits for his Latin American policies. The "tough" and "pragmatic" approach, revealed last week in Johnson's speech to the OAS and in Assistant Secretary Thomas G. Mann's reported remarks to the assembled U.S. ambassadors, does not depend upon popular approval in Latin America. Neither does it attract popular approval, which the U.S. must have to champion democratic revolution as an alternative to Castro...
...fertile ground for big-power meddling. France's President Charles de Gaulle backed the Greek Cypriot position, which made him a hero to the Greeks, while U.S. President Lyndon Johnson was being burned in effigy in Athens. The Soviet Union was also happily taking sides in a quarrel between NATO partners, and gave down-the-line support to the government of Cyprus' President Archbishop Makarios, who had interrupted his crisis-ridden week to attend the funeral of Greece's King Paul...
...Ceylon's Prime Minister saved her serious words for Chou himself. As a self-designated peacemaker, she thought she only had to say a few properly persuasive words to Chou and China would hasten to patch up its quarrel with India. Blithely, the Ceylonese press reported that Mrs. Bandaranaike had persuaded Chou to fly right to India for peace talks. But Chou was inscrutable, and India downright hostile to the idea. Mrs. Bandaranaike was only momentarily deterred. "As for the dispute between Peking and Moscow," she said, "I am afraid it is beyond...
...common Anglican faith, teach at the same university and contribute occasionally to the same scholarly journal, Theology. Some of them meet once a term after dinner to discuss a theological paper. But in viewpoint, they range from High Church to Low, from demythologizing radical to ethical conservative, and they quarrel with each other as much as with men who never crossed the Cam. "We have no common ground in a positive way," says one of them. "We agree negatively that the kind of questions the liberal theologians were asking between the wars must be asked again." Among Cambridge...