Word: discord
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...there is at least a potential for discord. Bush has approached this new step in U.S.-Soviet relations with his characteristic prudence. In a time of dynamic social and political upheaval in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union itself, Bush said, "I just didn't want to miss something, something that I might get better firsthand from Mr. Gorbachev." The Soviet President has been less patient. In late October, Gorbachev said privately that for months he had been exasperated with the Bush Administration's slow and uncertain response to the shifts in Kremlin policy. He was beginning to suspect...
...President Bok and Dean Jewett (the king and first minister) steal the vital power of deciding housing procedures from the masters (the feudal lords of Harvard), the university will inevitably degenerate into the same sort of rancorous discord that plagued eighteenth-century France...
...looming budget shortfall. "There's a need for change to ensure fair government," says Strauss. "If we don't do this, there's a pretty good chance the courts will do it for us." In fact, a federal trial set for September seems to guarantee a prolonged period of discord. Two unsuccessful black office seekers are demanding exactly what minority activists could not get on the ballot: a system of all single-member districts...
...heat of a battle to restructure the city government, the council voted unanimously to make the University a separate municipality. Although the council's request was never granted, it left a memorable legacy of the grizzled and sometimes legendary opposition between Harvard and Cambridge from which their modern discord grows...
...changes; and an anthology of writings on Reni at the end of the catalog charts his fall. You see the first puff of feathers detach itself from the wing of the Angelic Limner in 1846, when John Ruskin lets fly in Modern Painters: "A taint and stain, and jarring discord . . . marked sensuality and impurity." In 1895 Romain Rolland downed him: "He was able to deceive two entire centuries . . . Guido's laborious conscientiousness is void of thought and true feeling." Two years later, Bernard Berenson wrung his neck: "We turn away from Guido Reni with disgust unspeakable." And it was downhill...