Word: tensioning
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...provide students with the closest possible recreation of the issues confronting non-governmental organization workers in Darfur. Volunteers will role-play as refugees, while military checkpoints, mock Janjaweed attacks, and security evacuations are incorporated into the experience. The program directors intend to create an environment that closely resembles the tension and turmoil currently present along the Chad-Sudan border, according to Appleby. HHI’s Humanitarian Studies Initiative is a seven-year old program that attempts to provide students with hands-on experience that emphasizes the policies that HSPH has developed, according to a press release...
...Albania and Croatia but declined Ukraine and Georgia’s requests for similar plans. Many NATO member states saw the prospect of bringing these former Soviet states into the organization as dangerous because of the likelihood that their admission would anger Russia. Instances like these illustrate the political tensions that NATO’s exclusion of Russia causes. NATO was conceived in 1949 as a bulwark against the Communist bloc, which formed the Warsaw Pact in response. Even though the Warsaw Pact dissolved 20 years ago and many of its former constituents have joined Western organizations like the European...
...build-up of this theme of mourning, which escalated to a cacophonic agitation. This unsettling climax quickly gave way to a peaceful theme, dominated by sounds of strings and bassoons that werereminiscent of Eastern European music. The HRO, led by no less than four co-concertmasters, continued vacillating between tension and serenity, the latter being especially pleasant due to a strong cello section. The fourth movement, “Adagietto,” was written for only strings and harp and is perhaps one of Mahler’s best-known works. The romantic piece was given a successful treatment...
...edge. She did not notice the pain. Murali [Yalini’s father] knows now that you cannot escape your demons. He sees me, Yalini, as perhaps most like Uma: she has those other world eyes.” Ultimately, the novel ends without real resolution: the tension between tradition and the future remains as fraught as ever. Even though she has avidly researched her past, Yalini’s future remains undetermined by it. Speaking of her parents’ feelings towards her own generation, she says, “We are not quite safe, and they would like...
...long name indicates what a big deal it was to add American texts to the canon, which did not really occur until after WWII. It reflects a longstanding tension between the study of literature as something treated objectively (language) and its study as something subjective and inspired (Literature with a capital L). Since the creation of English departments in the late 19th century, “pedants” or “scholars” have shared duties with “dilettantes” or “critics”—often angrily. Questions...