Another way to experience this "essential strife" of earth and world in Van Gogh's painting might be to notice how the painting's subtly rich and dynamic background not only supports but also envelops the foreground image of the shoes.
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The magazine's sole story, Saving South Sudan by Robert Young Pelton, is a gonzo-style dive into the strife of the world's newest nation, one that has faced perpetual war "with some sporadic days off" since 1955.
Set in Ankara in the tense summer leading up to the Turkish coup of 1980, this novel centers on two children, Ali and Ayşe, who contend with the strife of the adult world.
In 1936, a group of progressive documentary photographers, many of them first-generation Americans, co-founded the Photo League; fifteen years later, having weathered the fallout of the Depression and the strife of the Second World War, the League fell victim to blacklisting.
For Heidegger, these two sources of attraction work together; it is the mysterious bounty of the strife between world and earth that comes through in the tension between what shows itself in the foreground and what recedes into the background of Van Gogh's paintings.
Lael Brainard, the Treasury under secretary for international affairs, said during a news conference on Friday that "ensuring our European partners are escalating their response" and getting European leaders to articulate their plan to end the market strife would be a top goal of world leaders at the meeting.
But as President Clinton sprints to move the peace process to a formal accord before he leaves office, one need look no farther than Westchester to see longstanding attempts to improve relations between Arab and Jew, though the centuries of strife half a world away have left a legacy of limits here too.
Love and strife on a Greek island, set mostly during the Fascist occupation of World War II.
The election of a Labour government at the end of World War II coincided with the rise of sectarian strife within India.
