Word: strife
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...Soldier's Embrace, Nadine Gordimer ¶Consenting Adults or The Duchess Will Be Furious, Peter De Vries ¶Joshua Then and Now, Mordecai Richler ¶ Music for Chameleons, Truman Capote ¶ Rough Strife, Lynne Sharon Schwartz ¶ The Magic Labyrinth, Philip Jose Farmer ¶ The Second Coming, Walker Percy
Today there is nothing amusing about this strife-torn and suffering region, if there ever was. Its five nations with 20 million people make up one of the most impoverished belts of the Western Hemisphere. If the bustling capitals have made it into the modern age, their vast rural areas are still largely shrouded in the semifeudalism of bygone centuries. Except for the transistor radio and the motorcycle, few of the amenities of modern life have ever arrived. Village women weave their own brightly colored dresses on primitive handmade looms. Water is fetched from a common spigot, and ox carts...
FICTION: Consenting Adults or the Duchess Will Be Furious, Peter De Vries ∙ Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party, Graham Greene Joshua Then and Now, Mordecai Richler ∙ Rough Strife, Lynne Sharon Schwartz ∙ The Magic Labyrinth, Philip José Farmer ∙ The Second Coming, Walker Percy ∙ The Transit of Venus, Shirley Hazzard
...Venezuela, Ecuador and Colombia, and by Peru's President-elect Fernando Belaúnde Terry. The Bolivian military's action was also strongly denounced by the U.S. State Department, which recalled Ambassador Marvin Weissman for "consultations" and cut off all military and economic aid to the strife-torn country...
FICTION: Falling in Place, Ann Beattie Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party, Graham Greene Joshua Then and Now, Mordecai Richler ∙ Preparations for the Ascent, Gilbert Rogin ∙ Rough Strife, Lynne Sharon Schwartz ∙ The Second Coming, Walker Percy ∙ The Transit of Venus, Shirley Hazzard