Word: discordance
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Like Stevenson, Fulbright clearly abhors the role of crusader. He fears the consequences of discord in a time of crisis. Now all about him the big guns of the Senate are firing, determined to demonstrate just how noisy and distasteful such discord can be. They realize just how dangerous--to them--a man like Fulbright might...
...hoof to Europe, which has long had a prejudice against more easily transported frozen beef. The cattle were not the only American arrivals in European ports. U.S. farm exports are pouring into the Common Market at so fast a pace that they have become a major point of discord at Kennedy Round meetings between the U.S. and the Big Six, which fear that lower European tariffs can only result in an even greater flood of U.S. goods...
...murderers swim forever in a river of blood; the flatterers wallow in human excrement; the sowers of discord are split up the middle and stagger through eternity with their entrails hanging out. From time to time, with the brutality characteristic of his age, Dante personally assists their torment -he kicks one sinner in the face and sadistically rips out a fistful of his hair. More sympathetic episodes are artfully interspersed. In the second circle, for instance, Dante meets Paolo and Francesca and tells the touching story of their tragic love. Unhappily, the canticle concludes with a large and, to modern...
When the Franco-German treaty of perpetual friendship was signed 21 years ago, it seemed only fitting that it stipulate biennial, home-and-home visits for the two heads of state. As it has turned out, the treaty has been marked by almost perpetual discord since its inception, and French and German views on everything from NATO and European unity to attitudes toward the Soviet Union and the U.S. involvement in Viet Nam have increasingly diverged. Last week German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard received French President Charles de Gaulle in Bonn as the treaty prescribes-but De Gaulle clearly went only...
Apologists for NATO are wont to find proof of the Alliance's vitality in the quantity of discord it can contain without actually flying apart. By that negative measure, NATO was positively brimming with health as its defense ministers met in Paris last week. They came armed with bulging portfolios of grievances-and never opened them...