Word: discordances
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...artist as a great man: while his wife and father bicker over money in the next room, Mozart slumps over a billiard table, takes a swig of wine and fleshes out Ah tutti contenti from The Marriage of Figaro, creating music of domestic ecstasy out of the discord of his family life...
...President's statements were intended to smother some of the prospects for discord at the summit, and they succeeded. Few of the issues that should have divided the seven leaders were allowed to disturb the tone of the meeting, even though, as the gathering concluded, about 150,000 antinuclear demonstrators marched in London to protest the presence of both Reagan and U.S.-built cruise missiles in Britain. By the end of the meeting, the leaders had summed up their deliberations in a blizzard of generally inoffensive documents: an economic communiqué, a "Declaration on Democratic Values," a statement...
...economic summits he attended as West German Chancellor, Kohl's predecessor, Helmut Schmidt, once reflected that the meetings were valuable not so much for what they accomplished as for what they avoided. He had in mind primarily resistance to curbs on free trade. Still, political harmony and economic discord are not an enduring combination-a point which the London gathering may well impress on the U.S. President...
Though Richardson concedes that he must work hard to appeal to state Democrats--Massachusetts is, of course, one of the strongholds of old-line liberalism--he soft-pedals discord between himself and the Reagan Administration, whose hard-line policies, he claims, are more bark than bite...
...analogy holds. Reagan, like Nixon, is a popular incumbent playing footsie with Third World crises, playing hardball with the Soviets, and playing around with ethics behind closed doors. The Democrats, as in 1972, are tearing themselves to shreds in the nomination fight. The incumbent will play off Democratic discord and win handily through some deft international diplomacy and a thinly disguised call for a return to a pre-polymorphic America...