Word: strife
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These tales are more satirical than sentimental. In Someone to Talk To, a journalist who won't stop gabbing about himself long enough to ask a question is worthy of Evelyn Waugh. In Across the Lake, naive young Americans look for local color in an unnamed strife-torn country that could be Guatemala. Their detachment from reality echoes Paul Bowles' brutal stories of hapless adventurers...
...other, Hasidic People by Jerome Mintz, takes readers on a tour through New York's Hasidic community, from its internal rabbinical struggles to its strife with the black community in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York...
...above all, a sense of freedom. I agree that life in India also involves many struggles. We have serious religious, economic and political conflicts. It is a roller-coaster ride, but that is what makes life in India highly interesting. Rushdie talked about the corrupt politics, the poverty, the strife and the poor attitude of the people. But India has also been responsible for many great minds, philosophers, physicists and artists. India's 50th anniversary of independence is a time to look at the silver lining, not the cloud--a time to fill people with hope, not despair. LAXMI NAIR...
...ceremony, Dyhrkopp recalled his days as a World War II soldier and credited Marshall's plan with preventing further strife in Europe...
...that Harvard is the best. Despite the large classes here (which appear to be the source of our drop in status), we are puzzled as to how Harvard lags behind Yale and Princeton, respectively. During the last few years, Yale has been struggling to overcome financial instability and labor strife. Last spring, undergraduates were forced to fend for themselves when the dining services went on strike. Earlier that term, Elis were locked out of their classrooms when teaching fellows battled the administration. At Princeton, sophomores were forced to inhabit trailers as a poor excuse for overflow housing. Whatever our problems...