Word: discordance
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...payroll. But S.N.C.C., unlike CORE, has always been able to count on the fanatical zeal of its workers-most of whom receive only $20 a week-and does not seem in danger of imminent collapse. Yet, if CORE and S.N.C.C. are in bad shape, their power for promoting discord among Negroes is still very much alive. The problem of the split civil rights movement, said Martin Luther King last week, is as old as the pyramids. "Whenever Pharaoh wanted to keep the slaves in slavery," lamented King, "he kept them fighting among themselves...
...been a good one. In that sense, the problem is not whether the world is too Americanized but whether it is Americanized enough: whether the many millions who have not yet been exposed to the material advantages of American society can be guided toward them without revolution and discord. Even if that happens, though, the world will never become a grade-A, U.S.-inspected, homogenized world. It is too full of diversity for that, and the U.S. is a powerful part of that diversity...
...domestic troubles complicated preparations for her trip to Washington next week. There she would have long discussions with Lyndon Johnson, and en route she would stop in Paris for talks with French officials. "How can I say India is a great country and meet foreign leaders when violence and discord have fouled the atmosphere?" she urged the Indian people. "This is no time to tarnish the image of our country...
...practice piano--that aspiring musicians battle for practice hours days in advance. Precious artistic energy is wasted on manipulating schedules, and outwitting rivals. Physical strength, rather than potential talent, often determines the allotment of time. In the musical life of the Houses, where harmony and cooperation should prevail, discord now reigns...
...Angeles' as an example of what can be accomplished. We submit that marriage and divorce are not the province of the law and the courts. Domestic breakup is an emotional tragedy that should be handled by family centers, where concentration would be upon the causes of marital discord rather than the symptoms, and where the jungle atmosphere that pervades the court and the lawyer's office would be eliminated completely...