Word: strife
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Rabbit, traumatized by Janice's betrayal, first abandons his stoic straitjacket. He is re-awakened to what Updike calls "new areas of sexual and psychic penetration" by a rich teen-aged "hippie" named Jill. He is then confronted directly with the problems which have caused his confusion--Vietnam, racial strife, local revolutionary struggle--when he takes in a young black war veteran. Skeeter attempts to give a metaphysical basis to explain social conditions--something Rabbit instinctively needs...
...enemy of humanity and of the African peoples in particular. You will not try the accused alone, but the evil ideas, the organizations and the imperialist countries that are still seeking to exploit the Third World and drain its resources by aiding and creating mutinies and waging civil strife...
...Hollywood's only liberal "socially-conscious" producer-director (with the occasional exception of New York outsiders like Kazan). He stayed in Hollywood for studio money and soundstages, and his films were among the few made there that dealt, on a large scale, with important contemporary subject matter: racial strife, American "success", the misfit problems of war veterans and motorcycle gangs. To make them, Kramer had to fight--and then compromise. He hoped to film the T.V. play, Judgment at Nuremberg, so he filled his cast with Names and touted the project to United Artists as its year's Grand Hotel...
...leaders and run their own organizations. Foreseeing major disturbances unless the government opened its closed doors. Carlos Madrazo, the president of PRI in 1964, began to democratize the party by initiating primary elections. He was fired by President Diaz Ordaz who ruled over a Mexico increasingly torn by student strife. Finally in 1968 thousands of protestors challenged the very basis of his presidential power...
Needless to say, there are all sorts of potential ambushes. Already febrile, Tony is sent to a strife-torn African country, representing Britain there "as a hole might represent a bucket." During an interview with an imprisoned black hero, Tony mouths bromides about using prisons as universities. At a subsequent party he rides a bike into a swimming pool. After recuperating from a broken arm and a fragmented psyche, he goes back to England, formally leaves Elizabeth and politics...