Word: discordances
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High Road. That controversy is minor compared to the potential divisiveness and discord latent in Ford's insistence in his speech on Congress's role in bringing about the present crisis and its responsibility to provide instant aid to Saigon. Of such stuff are "Who lost China?" poisons brewed in the body politic, even if Ford, as he vowed, would not be the Republican to cast blame...
...other powerful outside interest involved with the museum were stopped cold by a few humble neighborhood groups. When Stephen Smith, head of the corporation, said two weeks ago that it would not be "in keeping with the nature of this memorial for it to open in an atmosphere of discord and controversy" he signalled a rash of jubilation and community congratulations reminiscent of the Hebrews' best, after David slew Goliath...
...worrisome possibility. The Soviet Union resisted the temptation to make political capital from the Turkish-Greek confrontation, thus affirming the spirit of detente with the U.S. And the other NATO nations fully consulted among themselves and acted in concert to dampen the conflict-in sharp contrast to the discord and backbiting during the energy crisis last winter. In short, the week demonstrated that the Western allies are still capable of drawing together and speaking with a unified voice...
...first car they grab is stopped for breaking the speed laws-too slow. The next belongs to the officer who made the collar-an earnest highway patrolman named Slide (Michael Sacks), whose lectures on police procedures, vehicular maintenance and the prevention of marital discord make him first a hostage, then an accomplice. Captain Tanner (Ben Johnson), the cop who organizes the comical pursuit of the miscreants, must ride herd on his trigger-happy associates. He must also keep the inevitable crowds of reporters and television crewmen from turning events into a media circus. In neither endeavor is he entirely successful...
Couldn't that have been accomplished without such chaos and discord? Probably. But Harvard is an educational institution, after all, and for many of us the disorder and brutality of that month in April taught us more than any number of lectures. Seeing Harvard "turned on its ears" was quite a remarkable lesson in power, and democracy, and terror...