Word: discordances
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Approximately 300 striking University employees met yesterday afternoon in Memorial Church, but the movement for an all-University shutdown including employees has apparently bogged down in confusion and discord...
...Divine, Be doom'd in endless Discord...
...three years the Saigon government were to fall, because the delay would cushion the blow to U.S. prestige and would give the U.S. time to shore up its positions elsewhere. But that advantage is not worth the cost?in lives, in money, and in domestic discord. Bitterness at home is likely to grow so severe, if the war is continued even at a relatively low level, that the U.S. system itself is likely to be seriously impaired. Besides, the longer the war lasts, the stronger will be the sentiment for "No More Viet Nams"?a new isolationism that will...
...same time, a mood of disillusionment might overtake the country and prompt a "Fortress America" spirit of isolationism. That prospect worries the non-Communist nations of Asia more than lingering "domino" fears. It is a moot question whether discord and bitterness over withdrawal would be greater than over continued war?and what true presidential leadership could do to soften the inevitable shocks of either course...
...forward in Phillips' book is an aggrandized version of the 1968 Republican presidential-campaign strategy-though Nixon, in his pre-election speech on new alignments, specifically sought to appeal to both black and white liberals. Phillips acknowledges that he expects to be accused of deepening racial discord and promoting segregationist politics, but, he adds: "I don't say that it should happen, I just say that it does happen. We have always had these ethnic cleavages, despite a lot of effort to pretend that they will go away...