Word: tensioning
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These dilemmas plagued the composer through some of his most famous works as well. "Bernstein thought about having ‘West Side Story’ be about Jews and gentiles," Oja, returning to the tension between the Jewish and Irish while Bernstein was growing up in Boston...
...feel the anticipation and tension building in the office. This is my favorite part of the day, the time when I know all the sacrifices that I make for this job are worth...
...mentioning that tension, my professor tapped into the less-often discussed nature of what diversity can mean in a classroom. Rather than the polite and good-natured exchange of ideas and ideologies that’s advertised to us, we find that diversity is sometimes much more difficult than it looks in the pictures. In courses that deal with subjects as sensitive as race, religion, or political ideology, a heterogeneous classroom can often mean discomfort, argument, and uncertainty about what is or is not acceptable to say in front of each other. This is particularly striking in classes in African...
...different races, religions, sexual identities, and political ideologies is not all peaches and cream, love and happiness. Failing to recognize this reality in the name of sterile academic neutrality fails to engage the very real human elements and emotions that lie behind our differences, our conflicts, and our tensions. In the end, this breeds more of the very sort of tension that some so eagerly try to ignore, and that many others have been working tirelessly to acknowledge, and then move beyond...
...Most Militarized Border Tension between the two Koreas escalates after the North tests a nuclear weapon. Here's a look at life in the Korean...