Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...consequences for art. In novels like those of Graham Greene, when a married couple is on the verge of mutual annihilation they inquire politely into each others' health, and ask whether they should brew some tea, while technicolor rage circulates beneath. "Yes, Fred. Get the tea." The tension screams out from the mundanity. Now all we get is some pretentious, self-proclaimed novelist giving us 50 pages of emotional history, followed by a long conjugal argument repeating the same. My interest usually lapses early on." Bob's childhood was rough. The lawnmower his father wielded intimidated him..." Yawn. Then...
...meeting, which lasted more than 90 minutes, follows a summer of marked tension between students and police highlighted by a racial harassment complaint leveled at the police by a Black student...
Calling racial tension in the University guard unit "a serious problem" for the College, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III last week urged the Harvard Police Department to improve training and supervision in its security division...
Epps, who is coordinating College efforts to improve campus race relations, said in an interview Friday that racial tension in the security department may affect how guards treat students...
Nicholson, a joint concentrator in biology and Afro-American studies, framed her goals in the long term, saying that problems like tension among minority groups are too complex for quick solutions...