Word: factionalized
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...faction within the Hasidic sect, however, takes an entirely opposite position. Even if you haven't seen the full-page advertisements in the New York Times, you might know that Rebbe Menachem M. Schneerson, head of the almost evangelical Lubavich sect of Hasidism, is revered as the Messiah by thousands of his followers. In fact, more people may now believe the nonegenarian rabbi to be the Messiah than believed the same of Jesus of Nazareth at the time of his death...
...section explores the exploits of a set of young men and women almost unbelievably concerned with art and confident of their ability to produce it. City Poet recalls an era when a dispute over the relative merits of Eliot and Stevens could strain a friendship, when a pro-Yeats faction at the Advocate battled with a pro-Auden contingent of modernist mavericks, and when the smoke-filled Grolier Bookshop was a bona-fide artists' hangout. All of these pretensious goings-on would be laughable if they hadn't spawned some of the most talented artists in the nation, and Gooch...
Blumenthal says the plan falls in the center ofRepublicans and Democrats, but that Clinton wouldhave to court the Republican faction in order forthe plan to succeed...
There is a danger that American Jewry will be led down the same path of patriotism-by-proxy that has prolonged the Irish Republican Army's terror. A radical faction wages an unpopular struggle by appeal to its expatriate community--a community whose understanding is limited to the rarefied world of the ideal, oblivious to "front line" suffering...
...Army Faction may have gained new vitality. "If you don't allow us . . . to live," said an R.A.F. communique, "then you must understand that your elites also cannot live." The group's leadership has once again gone to ground, and security forces are on the alert. More assassination attempts, officials warn, can be expected...