Word: strife
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Medford High: Strife in the Suburbs...
...into the country is more discerning than before about what he sees, thanks to a growing body of scholarly and journalistic reportage. Harrison Salisbury, for instance, fresh from a month-long tour of China, has been able to write in the New York Times about the educational system, border strife and other subjects with greater depth than he could during a 1972 trip. He explains: "There was a lot of gee-whiz reporting then. It was like landing on the moon...
Palau's growing impact was demonstrated during the closing days of the Dominican crusade, when he flew to strife-torn Colombia to address a "Banquet of Hope" attended by 2,500 civic leaders. The principal guest, Colombia's President Alfonso Lopez Michelsen, showered Palau with congratulations. He responded with a blunt plea for the Colombian elite to turn to God and foster a spiritual reawakening. The Colombians who arranged the banquet, Palau told TIME, think that "the only ideology that can stop Marxist-Leninism or the disintegration of our society is Evangelical Christianity...
Thomson's Island does seem to teach the skeptics a good deal about human nature and about what kids accustomed to a highly polarized setting beset by racial strife can accomplish, in a better environment. But for all the votes of approval from students, it is easy to forget that the program is a short-lived one. After seven weeks on the island many students begin to ask questions, to take academics more seriously, to think more carefully about their futures. But then each group returns to Southie High, back to the troopers and the fights. Most of these...
Ronald Zeghibe '78, who spent the summer in Lebanon doing research for his thesis on leadership elites in the Lebanese civil war, faced a more serious problem: the difficulty, and even the danger, of working and living in a country torn by internal strife. Although most of the people he met and came to know were very friendly, he did find out that "life is very cheap" in the country as a whole, "and everybody gets used to it." He learned that lesson abruptly one day when, after a small automobile accident on a city street, the two drivers...