Word: quarrelling
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...Swedish farmer's daughter who tames the "wild land," she has a steely grace. But what was grand and moving in the novel comes out small and ordinary. Maybe it's because screenwriter Robert W. Lenski and director Glenn Jordan treat every event in Alexandra's life (a family quarrel, a sudden death) as if it were a scene from Knots Landing. Or maybe it's just that Cather's bittersweet picture of frontier life can't be reduced to greeting-card sentiments...
ISRAEL'S DISAGREEMENT over procedural details, while portrayed by some as a quarrel over petty semantics, has much greater significance in terms of the negotiations' overall dynamics...
...Henry once observed that Californians are not merely inhabitants of a state; they are a race of people. But at this moment of blinding change, Californians are defined by their differences, and their uncertainties. The Japanese quarrel with the Koreans, the blacks and Anglos with each other, and with the Mexicans, and with all the other new immigrants flocking in from everywhere. How can all these quarrels be sorted out when the economy is faltering, wildfires rage, water is scarce and the very ground beneath your feet trembles and threatens to fall away? The whole world would be wise...
...what lessons do they point to? Kenyan society is searching for reasons for its nightmare. Was it "abominable male chauvinism," as a local journalist put it, that brought on the crime? The boys, it seemed, were taking revenge on the girls for their refusal to join them in a quarrel with school officials. The logic: it is all right to rape women -- to kill them even -- if they do not obey male authority. The ability to inflict violence is the proof of power. There is a "logic" too to Dahmer's crime. Raised in a culture that condoned racial prejudice...
After the controversy flared in the press, Matthiessen insisted that his quarrel is with the Turner organization and not with Daniel Quinn or Ishmael. "It's not a novel yet," he says of the winner. "It is an extremely clear and lucid presentation of valuable ideas that deserve a hearing." As for Quinn, he calls his victory "a Cinderella story, complete with the stepsisters howling at the side." Whether any of this will affect the Turner Tomorrow Awards is impossible to predict. It's hard to know what the future will bring...