Word: discordances
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...civilian clothes, he appeared at his first cocktail party in a white suit borrowed from a waiter. He has been to nightclubs only twice, but is constantly on the trail of hamburgers: "What wouldn't I give for a hamburger?" He spent Christmas in bed with desarranjo (bowel discord...
...reverberations of London's belling clocks. In To The Lighthouse, which Critic Daiches calls "the perfection of Virginia Woolf's art," the rhythms of time and death and change suffuse and subtilize a half-mystic seascape, a long-delayed excursion, an equally delayed resolving of family discord...
...emotional content of his two prizes consisted, according to Dr. Berg, of sexual jealousy, fear, rage, revulsion, frustration, insecurity. The situations included domestic discord, separation, divorce, sickroom scenes, courtroom scenes. The characters-"There appear to be no 'happy' characters. . . . All present single psychological profiles. They are unrelievedly bad or good...
...Allies. In the U.S., Director Archibald MacLeish of OFF declared the Axis campaign to spread discord among the United Nations to be "as shrewd, as ruthless as any plot of the Borgias." Axis radio spray to the U.S.: "American policy is dictated in Downing Street . . . will leave America holding the bag." To Brit ain: "The British Empire is dissolving like a lump of sugar in the Roosevelt teacup...
...aggression, we have an opportunity to establish the principle of international morality as a common objective. We have a chance to lay a real foundation for a workable peace. By excluding them from our fullest confidence, by continually mistrusting their motives, we are only laying the seeds for future discord...