Word: discordant
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...After Ratmansky took office, he quickly addressed his foremost challenge: uniting a company in deep discord while redirecting its repertory. There was no doubt the Bolshoi lacked artistic focus. But how to keep traditionalists satisfied while simultaneously introducing new work? "I wanted to find a repertoire that would be the new phase of the Bolshoi," Ratmansky says. "It's about resurrecting [older] ballets and bringing in people to make new classics...
...what may be most distinctive about Kagan is her ability to effect change while uniting a school that has been marked by intense faculty and student discord over the past several decades...
...nodes” by physicists—do not vibrate, but produce two tunes that resonate from each bar. Matisse sawed nicks at these nodes on the bar so that the whole bar would be more flexible, setting the two tones a full octave apart and eliminating the discord...
...Indeed, sowing discord among the five parties could be North Korea's chief reason to resume the negotiations. Despite U.N. sanctions, South Korea, which favors engagement with the North, has been slow to reduce aid and trade with Pyongyang, while the South Korean public is just as likely to blame President Bush for the nuclear standoff as it is Kim Jong Il. Even after the test, China and South Korea still fear a collapsing North Korea more than they do a nuclear one, while Japan and the U.S. would like nothing more than to see Kim gone. Russia...
When China's President Hu Jintao appeared last weekend on a flag-bedecked dais alongside his predecessor, Jiang Zemin, and called for national unity, many Chinese instead heard evidence of discord...