Word: discordance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Discord. His goal, he said, was to bring the best of the humanities to ordinary Americans. High on his agenda, for example, were proposals to finance a television series on Shakespeare's plays and novels by Charles Dickens and Alexander Solzhenitsyn. In this, he took what critics have called a "strict constructionist" view of the humanities, saying the endowment should refuse to finance "Classic Comics-culture simplified and castrated." Declared Berman: "I'm a professional scholar and naturally want to preserve the best in our humanist traditions...
That look into the future may not be farfetched. The Concorde's small payload, mounting costs and environmental effects are creating discord in Britain and France. This week British Aerospace Minister Michael Heseltine and French Transport Minister Jean Chamant meet in Toulouse for urgent discussions of ways to ease the problems surrounding the plane. TIME European Economic Correspondent Roger Beardwood (210 Ibs.) reports...
...Democrats had the best of the argument. Muskie was hardly giving aid and comfort to the Communists by telling them that Americans are still divided on how best to end the war quickly; Hanoi knows that well. The expectation of domestic discord may well have rendered the North Vietnamese more stubborn, as the Administration has always claimed, but there is no convincing evidence that this ever was or is now a decisive factor. Viet Nam long ago destroyed any vestige of the precept that "politics stops at the water's edge." For any Democratic candidate not to discuss...
...served, "all that will matter will be whether what was done made a difference, whether it marked an episode or an epoch. We are living through one of the most difficult periods of our time. Some say we are divided over Viet Nam; others blame other domestic discord. But I believe the cause of our anguish is deeper. Throughout our history we believed that effort was its own reward. Partly because so much has been achieved here in America, we have tended to suppose that every problem must have a solution and that good intentions should somehow guarantee good results...
...between two of the world's major powers. He embarked upon a dazzling round of summitry that will culminate in odysseys to Peking and Moscow. He doggedly pursued his own slow timetable in withdrawing the nation's combat troops from their longest and most humiliating war, largely damping domestic discord unparalleled in the U.S. in more than a century. He clamped Government controls on the economy, causing the most drastic federal interference with private enterprise since the Korean War. He devalued the dollar, after unilaterally ordering changes in monetary policy that sent shock waves through the world's markets...