Word: schism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inevitable Rule. Well aware that the members of Kenya's eleven main tribal groups and hundreds of clannish subgroups find little agreement among themselves, many white Kenya colonists stood by confidently awaiting the first signs of schism among the eight African parliamentarians, but the signs never appeared. "The eight of us will differ in matters of detail," said Mboya, "but on the basic question, we don't." Fortnight ago, as Mboya's restlessness was felt more and more throughout the land, penetrating even the Mau Mau detention camps, Kenya's government ordered government tape recorders installed...
...profound myth to lurid legend"-the bloody Armageddon which they eagerly anticipate between 1970 and 1980. The eclecticism of Unity (a self-help faith) and Baha'i (a world brotherhood offshoot of Islam) "amounts to metaphysical and theological hodgepodge. And the history of each involves bitterness and schism that matches anything in the church's story...
Judging from this exhibition one night imagine, that the schism between poetry and Strum and Drang lies in intensity of emotion or dramatic nature of the subject. Actually Goya's "Disasters of War," certainly more graphic than anything here, or Picasso's "Guernica," more symbolic and abstract than anything here, answer an emphatic no. For if Barlach, Kollwitz, Grosz, et al, utter an emotional cry from the blackness of chaos and confusion, it is Picasso and Goya who offer, with emotion disciplined. "right" and "inevitable," an answer which cannot help being true...
...Marshal Tito and his husky army march back at full flag to the service of Communist expansion. But in almost every clue to the Yalta meeting and in every conjecture, however farfetched, there was a basic cause for composure: the primary reason for the conclave seemed to be a schism in world Communism...
...church has wanted a bishop of its own, but the regular Anglican Church refused to provide one. Last August the dissidents finally decided to get a bishop on their own initiative, elected George Frederick Bingley Morris, retired Anglican Bishop of North Africa, and installed him in Johannesburg. Faced with schism, the Archbishop of Canterbury warned Morris to withdraw or be considered excommunicated. Morris's answer did not sound as if he intended to give up his bishopric. He threatened to sue the Archbishop of Canterbury for libel and appeal the whole case to the Crown...