Word: discordance
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...Discord Over the Concorde
...votes led even the professionally neutral Kurt Waldheim to express dismay. The U.N.'s Secretary-General deplored the danger that "we may lose the future through discord and confrontation." More predictably, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said the resolution was "highly irresponsible" and had "added to the tensions, to the rifts and to the distrust" in the world. Congress was less restrained. Both houses denounced the action and promised an immediate reappraisal of U.S. involvement in the U.N. Conservative Senator James Buckley of New York charged that "the General Assembly has decided to institutionalize one of the world...
...constitution in 1955 that promised Ethiopians equal rights under the law. In the 1960s, he turned Addis Ababa into a modern city. Yet Ethiopia remained a desperately poor land, whose 26 million people still have one of the world's lowest per capita incomes: $80. As discord grew in the land, the aging Emperor seemed incapable of dealing with it or even understanding it. In early 1974, when an army mutiny for higher pay led to a wave of disorders in the capital, the Emperor handed out wads of bank notes to beggars, seemingly unaware that such imperial gestures...
...full volume though, which when directed is effective, but when not, seems to circle endlessly. In the first cut on the album (Similar Limits), all three, Brown, Altena and Bennik cut loose from each other and race off in different directions. The result is unfathomable. The density of discord is not in itself expresssve and only masks the individual efforts of each musician. In 'Improvisation' however, Brown opens alone, unaccompanied and gradually builds on a simple theme until at a peak of intensity, drums and bass enter flying. Brown rides on top, climbing all over the tonal scale...
Author Mee's postrevisionist thesis is that not merely Stalin but all "three men rescued discord from the threatened outbreak of peace." He is not entirely convincing. Unless the U.S. was prepared to accede to Soviet ambitions for a Communist Europe, the cold war was virtually unavoidable. But by concentrating on personalities and anecdotes, Mee has produced a highly readable and provocative book...