Word: discordances
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Trying to find common public images in the midst of the pandemic discord of American democracy has never been an easy task. Sometimes, as now, it has seemed all but hopeless. One recalls the morose words of John Trumbull in 1793, lamenting how "the whole American people" had become "violent partisans ... the whole country seemed to be changed into one vast arena ... on which the two parties, forgetting their national character, were wasting their time, their thoughts, their energy ... In such a state of things, what hope remained for the arts? None...
Federal authorities arrested Christopher Johnson on arson charges, accusing him of having set fire last August to Alabama's Randolph County High School, the school beset with racial discord after its principal, Hulond Humphries, threatened to cancel a prom over interracial dating. Emmett Johnson, the suspect's father and founder of a local protest group called the Black Panther Militia, asserted that the arrest was a frame...
...member serving as a case officer for "illegals," Soviet agents working in Germany who did not have diplomatic covers and so were not protected by diplomatic immunity. In addition, he attempted to recruit agents, mostly among German university students and members of the German peace movement. Varenik described the discord and tensions in the local kgb station and decried the petty politicking and corruption. He was clearly fed up with the existing Soviet system, and he was repelled by the idea of bombing Americans. He was not primarily motivated by ideology, however; he simply...
...create an enormous, sensible buffer state between two future powers, China and India. And as China begins an uncertain period of transition (hopefully towards democracy--and any real political freedom would necessitate the Tibetan choice of freedom), it should look to making Tibet an issue which will defuse international discord and gain respect...
...forget the past, Sparks wants them to remember. The object lesson of his narrative is not how complicated the negotiating process was but how dicey and tentative, how easily it might have gone off the rails. Divisions within the a.n.c. and the National Party proved more dangerous than discord between them. During the narrative, Mandela and De Klerk emerge not as ideologues or saviors but as hard-headed pragmatists and canny politicians...