Word: discordances
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...served, "all that will matter will be whether what was done made a difference, whether it marked an episode or an epoch. We are living through one of the most difficult periods of our time. Some say we are divided over Viet Nam; others blame other domestic discord. But I believe the cause of our anguish is deeper. Throughout our history we believed that effort was its own reward. Partly because so much has been achieved here in America, we have tended to suppose that every problem must have a solution and that good intentions should somehow guarantee good results...
...between two of the world's major powers. He embarked upon a dazzling round of summitry that will culminate in odysseys to Peking and Moscow. He doggedly pursued his own slow timetable in withdrawing the nation's combat troops from their longest and most humiliating war, largely damping domestic discord unparalleled in the U.S. in more than a century. He clamped Government controls on the economy, causing the most drastic federal interference with private enterprise since the Korean War. He devalued the dollar, after unilaterally ordering changes in monetary policy that sent shock waves through the world's markets...
...playing in counterpoint." It's this acceptance of counterpoint that makes Discretions a valuable work of literature as well as of memory: the acceptance that the different realities of different stages of maturity can play in the same story consecutively or all at once, in harmony or in discord. The counterpoint plays clearly as the teenaged, peasant-raised girl describes an uncomfortable visit with her father's friend, T.S. Eliot, as she is waiting for her father's release from America. "The room and his words felt chilly. After a while he went to fetch some tea....And stooping...
...message, if it can be called that, seems to be that the remedy for marital discord is a coupling in the linen closet, that rebellion is raising a ruckus at the country club, and that happiness is a discarded towel. As Turman and Scriptwriter Lorenzo Semple Jr. (Pretty Poison) go for the simple solution, they favor the easy laugh. "Relax, enjoy the air," Alren tells Lisa, and there is a quick cut to a truck spewing exhaust. There are, in addition, the usual number of shafts directed at high-priced psychiatrists, high-pressure businessmen and-everybody's favorite-middle...
...control three-quarters of the non-communist supply. While only 3 per cent of the U.S. supply comes from the Mid-East, the 59 per cent of Mid-East production controlled by American petroleum companies is sold to the oil-hungry nations of Western Europe and Japan. The recent discord in the Mid-East between the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and the large American petroleum companies underscores the economic and political importance of the potentially stable offshore Southeast-Asian supplies...