Word: discords
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...balancing act. The Duke, a big bear of a man whose own, somewhat cheap, sense of theatrics keeps the play from dissolving completely into schizophrenia, is played with just the right measure of perverse magnanimity. Clemenson has a commanding presence, and plays the part with a nice sense of discord--the Duke seems to have convinced himself that he is only delaying justice; he wanders around with great relish, half-distracted and yet half-taken with his own powers. In a wonderful scene at the play's end, the Duke is unmasked, and Clemenson prances, near-delighted and yet near...
Your story about the discord in Lebanon [May 11] fails to emphasize one basic fact: the conflict is primarily over Lebanon's sovereignty. It is not a "civil war" between Lebanese Christians and Muslims. The P.L.O. has usurped power in order to have a base for attacking Israel. The Syrians have set up their defenses in our country to prevent a linkup between the Lebanese Christians. The Syrians act as if it were a crime for our people to try to remove the Syrian-Palestinian wedge separating the country...
...onetime speaker of the Texas house of representatives and son of former Texas Governor and ex-U.S. Senator Price Daniel; of a gunshot wound inflicted by his wife Vickie, who had filed for divorce in December on the grounds that their four-year marriage was "insupportable because of discord or conflict of personalities"; in Liberty, Texas. No charges have been filed, pending an investigation into the cause of the shooting...
Unfortunately for opera lovers, the discord has already cost five weeks of performances, including the season premiere of Turandot, starring Luciano Pavarotti and Montserrat Caballe. It will be two or three weeks before the house reopens. For some productions, like Samson et Dalila, Das Rheingold and Gotterdammerung, the agreement almost certainly has come too late. A new staging of Queen of Spades, planned for next March, may also be scratched. Even so, there were few tears at Lincoln Center. If the accord had not come now, there might have been no season...
...chore that has proved remarkably difficult since Afro-Am's inception in 1969. In the ranks of senior faculty, he is joined only by Eileen Southern, professor of Afro-American Studies and Music and former chairman of the department, who resigned her post in June amid reports of discord. Rosovsky said last fall, "You've got to believe me when I say we tried--and we failed--" to attract scholars to the Afro-Am department. Since 1971, the number of concentrators has dropped about 75 per cent and course enrollment about 55 per cent. Even with an annual financial expense...