Word: strife
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Last week's performance admirably underlined all the sharp and sudden contrasts: the swirling turbulence of the strings, portraying tumult and strife, giving way to the stately chorus of trombones marking the prince's intervention; the remarkably effective muted chanting of the chorus in "Juliet's Funeral Procession," followed after "Juliet's Awakening" by a shattering explosion of the orchestra in flamboyantly strutting rhythms. Throughout, Conductor Wallenstein managed to catch the remarkable range of inflections that Berlioz alone seemed to hear in an orchestra...
...Renard's bidding, the strikers persisted. Although the Flemish north now was quiet and mostly back at work, the rest of Belgium remained racked with strife. The Cabinet met and decided to order 2,000 more troops back from their NATO garrisons in Germany to help guard factories and mines that Renard's extremists had threatened with sabotage. In many towns gendarmes escorted government-conscripted garbage men on their rounds; as they dumped the cans into trucks, village after village echoed to auto horns that beeped rhythmically "Eyskens au po-teau"-"Eyskens to the gallows." Here and there...
...inquisitive Africans sallied through the U.S. South last week to tour the hottest hotspots of racial strife. Mainly graduate students at California campuses, and sponsored by Stanford University's Institute of International Relations, they went armed with cameras, typewriters, a tape recorder, and nervous expectations. Scribbled Nigerian Engineer Lewis Chik-wendu, 26, as the plane headed south: "I expect we shall be mobbed in certain states, and if care is not taken, we may be rough-handled...
...meeting with the Pope. Citing some lines from the Gospel According to St. Luke ("Then there arose a reasoning among them which of them should be the greatest"), the Archbishop discussed the long separation of the two churches. "The cold war was indeed a war," he said. "A strife for victory, for converts, for political power in many countries with victims and martyrdoms and cruelties and oppressions. That period is not altogether past, but it is passing...
...groups of Southern electors are on record as bombastically bragging that their states' mandates in the matter of casting of electoral votes need not be obeyed. At this very moment one of the South's truly civilized and gracious cities, New Orleans, is torn by ugly racial strife openly encouraged by those sworn to uphold the laws. Should the Confederacy be established, such shenanigans would be of no more than parochial interest, to be regarded by the 37 United States in the same light as revolts in Iran . . . The Southerners could buy our automobiles and we would...