Word: discordance
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Last year's target for super-patriotic clodhoppers was the Pasadena school superintendent, who apparently was not sufficiently versed in the benefits of the Three R's campaign. This year discord grew from use of a booklet printed by the U.N. which suggests ways a teacher might best explain the United Nations Educational, Social, and Cultural Organization...
Thomas Sugrue-Roman Catholic journalist and author (Stranger in the Earth, Watch for the Morning)-is upset by discord between Catholics and Protestants. Unlike most Catholics who launch into print on the subject, he thinks that his own church-particularly the church in the U.S.-deserves a good deal of the blame. Author Sugrue's complaint, in the Protestant Christian Herald: the church is mixing in affairs of state and it has no business there. It began to go wrong when Christ's teachings about spiritual authority in man's subjective "inner world" began to be extended...
...deny that the record compiled is replete with discord and disagreement . . . We will not all be together on those conclusions. We may differ on the proper policy to be applied in the Far East. We may separate on questions of strategy. We may divide on personalities. But we will be ... single-minded in our will to preserve our institutions. We hope they may be preserved in peace, but preserve them we shall. Mistakes may add to the measure of our sacrifices or change the form of the ordeal we may be called upon to endure, but come what may, America...
...last. The talk goes on in every classroom, in every corner of the campus. It is Yale's answer to the long, arid years of schizophrenia and specialization, to such critics as Abraham Flexner, who denounced U.S. education as "atomistic," and Robert Hutchins, who dubbed it "disunity, discord and disorder...
...ideas into operation. His reputation as a trouble shooter prompted the War Department to ask for his services, and Cabot went to work as a civilian advisor to the Quartermaster Corps. His first big assignment was to straighten out a personnel problem at the Tank Automotive Center in Detroit. Discord among the four thousand men had been slowing up the plant's production. When Cabot got through, the plant ran smoothly again and everyone was content. He left the War Department in 1945, after successfully completing his government duties...