Word: quarrelling
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...came instantly to mind; the question was where, among so many artists of stature, to limit the list. In the end, Murphy decided that there were four who stood out clearly above the others. His four choices will be found in this week's Music section. Readers may quarrel with his favorites or complain of omissions, but Murphy (his memory refreshed by hearing them again on records) is prepared to stand by his choices...
...Says she, the Congress Party's economic policy "is like growing a babul tree and expecting to get mangoes. They come to you when they need your vote; when they are returned to power, they become, little monarchs who levy taxes on you as they please, make you quarrel with each other, and swell their bank accounts...
...Coexistence" Quarrel. From the time of Khrushchev's posthumous assassination of Stalin at the 20th Party Congress in 1956-a move about which Peking had received no forewarning-other serious disagreements developed. For one thing, the Chinese were opposed (as they said last week) to washing Marxist dirty linen in public; they also feared, reported British Historian G. F. Hudson, the restoration of "the exclusive supreme authority which had belonged to the Kremlin under Stalin and which Khrushchev, in spite of his repudiation of 'Stalinism,' was in practice trying to preserve...
...about Communism's recent past that rivaled the purge trials of the 1930's. Instead of parrotlike unity, there was the thrust of conflict between Red China and the Soviet Union. With typical Communist indirection, Moscow and Peking used tiny, insignificant Albania as the symbol of the quarrel and as their ideological whipping...
...only fault I find with Le Crime is Jean Wiener's music. Periodically, gypsy violins accompany a street quarrel or an earthy seduction, which is like covering a turnip with strudel dough...