Word: schism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whether the situation of the church demands the shock of another Luther. Even as it gropes toward ecumenical union, Protestantism stands threatened by secular inroads and spiritual indifference. Ranking church leaders openly question the relevance of Christianity, while old denominational quarrels have been upstaged by a new threat of schism: crisis-centered activists who see the church's function as worldly service, against heaven-glancing traditionalists who argue that Christ's message was to save souls not nations...
Among Republicans whose objective is to win rather than to witness a shriving for sinners, the 1964 schism is ancient history. Asked whether he could conceive of the G.O.P.'s nominating a man who had not supported Goldwater, Chuck Percy (who did) said "Yes." He reacted as nimbly when a Washington reporter asked him which way he wanted the party to go. "In the winning direction," said Percy, adding: "You weren't referring to ideology, were...
...fact the whole conference, was a minor triumph for the U.S. policy of the middle way in Viet Nam. "We set out with modest objectives," said a member of the U.S. delegation, "and I think we achieved them." The principal achievement was to avert a schism between the hard-lining nations on Asia's mainland, South Korea, Thailand and Viet Nam ("The ones in sight of the gallows," as one U.S. aide puts it), and the safer, softer-lining insular nations, Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines...
Their struggle, waged for decades with near-Sicilian ferocity, is less a political schism than a blood feud between so-called liberals and uncompromising conservatives. Last week, Texas' liberals threatened to bolt in a body from the Democratic Party in order, of all things, to support a conservative Republican...
...readers to conclude that Communism carries the seeds of its own failure. The author acknowl edges that Russia has flopped as an industrialist (half the state enterprises are run at a loss), as. a farmer, even as a seminal example to other Communist states. Writes Avtorkhanov of the deepening schism between Moscow and Peking: "The contradictions are so deep that in perspective they make war between these two Communist states, if not unavoidable, at least fully possible...