Word: discordantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once Chou seemed almost embarrassed, hastily ordered a complete investigation, at week's end apologized profusely. "The scheme of imperialists to make use of this incident to spread slander and show discord between China and Nepal will never succeed," said he. Despite Chou's protestations, the incident proved once more that Red China has an astonishingly casual attitude toward the borders of its neighbors...
...current rhubarb over religion relative to the presidency reminds one that most of the discord and turmoil and inhumanity among humans originates with religious people. On the average, the skeptical and the pious seem equally to have failed to emerge from their primitive caves; as to human qualities, there seems to be but little choice between them...
Asked last week whether he thought De Gaulle fully aware of the depth of France's increasing domestic discord, ambitious Jacques Soustelle enigmatically replied: "He is not, shall we say, as conscious of these problems...
...ever staged: Choreographer Maurice Bejart's Such Sweet Thunder, set to music by Duke Ellington. Originally written for Canada's Stratford Shakespearean Festival, Thunder is a 14-part suite obscurely inspired by a line from A Midsummer Night's Dream: "I never heard so musical a discord, such sweet thunder." Ellington's musical rogue's gallery glimpses of Shakespearean heroes and heroines in turn inspired Choreographer Bejart to paste together a 45-minute dance work that he describes as "part serious, part caricature, part dowdy-like the Bolshoi." It turned out to be a kind...
...near the town of Charrier. Unfortunately, French for baby is bébé, pronounced "B.B.," who, as 45 million Frenchmen know, is Cineminx Brigitte Bardot. In turn, making the coincidence the more monstrous, B.B. is married to highstrung Cinemactor Jacques Charrier. Was Perrier, with gauche humor, hinting of discord in the Charrier family? Brigitte concluded just that, had her lawyers ask the Seine Tribunal to muzzle the ads because they cast doubt on her love for her husband, thus injured "her honor, her happiness and her private life." The tribunal refused, but hinted that the ads were slightly ambiguous...