Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first act, the tension between director Lloyd Dallas (Daniel Zelman) and his actors keeps the audience's interest. Dallas desperately wants to run through the dress rehearsal in order to have a good opening night, but the actors keep pausing to question the motivations of their characters. Zelman commands to them with a perfect balance of sarcasm and subtle condescension...
Members of the Faculty Council claimed they did not want to create an adversarial relationship between a department's chair and its affirmative action representative. But the very point of the Verba Report was that change would not come without such structural tension...
...decision to grant Fang and his wife refuge has become the primary source of tension between the two countries. Just before Halloween the Chinese mounted a show of force around the embassy, evidently fearing that masked party guests were going to smuggle Fang out in a coffin. Diplomats had joked openly for months about pulling such a stunt. The Chinese evidently took them at their word -- monitored, no doubt, over tapped phone lines...
...said on the West Berlin radio station RIAS,"The leadership must make other steps to prove itis earnest in its reform efforts and to win thetrust of the people. The tension between thepeople and the party has never been so great astoday...
...more productive the faculty, the better," Tribe says. "The best kinds of teaching are informed by scholarship. I see no tension between the two. Clark has long been not only a good teacher but highly interested in the subject of education and pedagogy," he says...