Word: discord
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would be inaccurate to say that these measures would not have been taken without the death of Martin Luther King Jr. and the subsequent rioting. But the fact remains that it took the flames of discord licking the shoes of the Cambridge pols to make them stop playing at politics and start acting like leaders...
...depression marked by listlessness, poor appetite, and an increasing number of real but unnecessary ailments that drive him to the doctor. Wives, too, can become upset by having a man underfoot all day. Dr. Wright quoted one: "I married George for life, but not for lunch." This new discord, he warned, can lead to the breakup of a long marriage...
...private preserve of the art houses but a characteristic of the main-line American movie. Two for the Road, otherwise an ordinary Audrey Hepburn vehicle, has as much back-and-forth juggling of chronology as any film made by Alain Resnais-not to mention a comic acidity about marital discord that is as candid as anything the Swedes have said. Even a conspicuous failure such as John Huston's Reflections in a Golden Eye bleeds color images through black-and-white in a startling extension of the camera's palette. U.S. movies are now treating once-shocking themes...
...Dashing John Lindsay, 46 this week, is, of course, far down on the list of G.O.P. possibilities for 1968, and with Governor Nelson Rockefeller dominating the party in New York, Lindsay has no strong organizational base of his own. The Rockefeller-Lindsay relationship has not been harmonious, the latest discord occurring, paradoxically, because Lindsay has been boosting Rockefeller's candidacy and because one of Lindsay's aides is prominent in a draft-Rockefeller group. Such efforts erode Rockefeller's façade of noncandidacy at a time when the Governor prefers to remain committed, at least...
...life in one family's history. Mansions begins where A Touch of the Poet leaves off, in the Massachusetts of the 1830s. The hero of the earlier play, a swaggering, staggering Irish tavern keeper named Con Melody, has just died, having spent most of his life in brash discord with the Yankee landowning gentry. But before he dies, Con has a vision of personal revenge and future glory for his daughter Sara: "She'll live in a Yankee mansion, as big as a castle, on a grand estate of stately woodland...