Word: maelstrom
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...Though the tide in Rome was shifting back toward the doctrinal firmness he would come to embody, 1968 was a complicated year for Joseph Ratzinger, the current pope. According to his biographers, the then theology professor recoiled from the maelstrom of student protest and provocative behavior on the campus of Tübingen University, where he was teaching. Indeed, the following year he would move to the more conservative (and quiet) campus of the University of Regensberg...
...market economy and privatized state enterprises. Encountering opposition, he governed by decree. When this failed to cow his adversaries, he ordered the army to shell the Supreme Soviet and arrest its leaders. A new constitution was introduced, but politics never became tranquil. Russia was swept into a maelstrom of fevered public disputes and wild capitalism...
...help pitying and chastising her in turn. At the same time, her talent and the truth from which it springs should not be denied. We can only hope that she learns to rectify the struggle that feeds her art without somehow letting the art excuse or enable her personal maelstrom. Regardless of whatever challenges she faces, she's a modern great, period. K. Wilson, Hampton, Virginia
...help pitying and chastising her in turn. At the same time, her talent and the truth from which it springs should not be denied. We can only hope that she learns to rectify the struggle that feeds her art without somehow letting the art excuse or enable her personal maelstrom. Regardless, she's a modern great, period. K. Wilson, HAMPTON...
Thousands of motorbikes swerving at high speed and near-misses at every corner can make the roaring streets of Hanoi a terrifying place for the uninitiated. But for Vietnamese teenagers like Trinh Thanh Van, the motorized maelstrom is a party on wheels. It's 8 p.m. on a weeknight, and 19-year-old Van is out with two girlfriends on the back of her red Honda Wave, darting through ever-shifting streams of motorbikes as they look for new friends. It's a typical evening of luon lo (literally "wandering"), the nightly ritual where young Vietnamese cruise, flirt and flaunt...