Word: discordances
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...Expecting total success in marriage may be the cause of marriage failures." A good family should have some "discord and dissent." The principal also holds true for politics, where success can not be measured, Demos suggested. "We should not demand success where there can be none...
During the campaign, Democratic orators promised a grand symphony as pure as the lost chord if only a Democratic President was elected to work with the Democratic Congress. But last week, as the various virtuosos of the U.S. Senate began the tune-up for the 87th Congress, the discord sounded hauntingly familiar...
Voting Republican is an ancestral birthright in New Hampshire, but in this election the state might swallow its pride and elect some Democrats. If this happens, it will not come from a popular demand for reform or even for change, but from discord within the Republican party. While only unprecedented dissatisfaction could force reorganization of the state's outmoded governmental machinery, the election could bring a return of the two-party system...
...from smoothing over differences, the Bonn meeting emphasized the real discord De Gaulle has brought to the Western alliance by his dream of a new French grandeur and his demand for an atomic striking force of his own. The answer may well be a plan proposed by SHAPE Commander Lauris Norstad last week to create a nuclear deterrent force within NATO made up presumably of land-and sea-based units manned by Europeans but commanded by Americans...
...disillusion so evident in Freshmen may be precipitated by the grading system and course assignments, but often the intellectual tone of the Freshman environment and the social structure of the class are equally important. The particular source of discord is likely to be determined by what the Freshman looks for rather than where Harvard fails to meet general expectations: a student who is looking for an intellectual atmosphere and finds one will be far less disturbed by academic difficulty, even if he led his school class...