Word: strife
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When I asked McCleery if the suspicious resemblance between the relationships in his play and in A Doll's House were merely coincidental, he acknowledged that Nora and Torvald Handover were pretty strong influences on him as he created the Hardesty pair. He drew a lot from Ibsen: marital strife stemming from an imbalanced relationship, the husband's view of the wife as a subservient partner, and the wife's surreptitious assistance to the husband and his career success. But Hardesty Park lacks the pessimistic and jaded timbre of Ibsen's drama...
...late 20th century, it is unlikely that a dogmatic ideological totalitarianism will ever take root. But the apathy in moral questions to which a pluralistic society may so quickly lead is more insidious than authoritiarian strictures, but it is not less dangerous. At a time when, weary of useless strife and a long war waged in vain, the emphasis, particularly at the university, is on the equivalent value of a wide variety of life styles, on relativism and tolerance--or indifference--on calmness and objectivity--or docility and moral resignation--it is a good and necessary thing to remember that...
...streaming from the radiators of at least ten rigs, which had been punctured by gunfire; one driver was shot in the shoulder and hospitalized. In New Jersey, independents picketed gasoline terminals owned by Hess, Amoco and Chevron, trying to prevent shipments to service stations. State police escorted trucks through strife-torn areas outside Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Akron, Youngstown and Warren, Ohio. At week's end Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor Ernest P. Kline called out the National Guard to prevent further violence...
Amidst this internecine turmoil, Peron remains aloof and caught in a dilemma: he cannot restore law and order in Argentina while his own movement is riven with internal strife. If he tries, he puts himself in the position of fighting his own supporters...
...year's most significant foreign policy achievement: the negotiated withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from the nation's debilitating involvement in the Viet Nam War. However tardy, the settlement allowed 587 American prisoners of war to return home, the draft to be suspended and the domestic strife that had inspired a rebellious counterculture to be eased. It did not, however, achieve a true peace for Viet Nam itself and at year's end fighting continued almost unabated...