Word: schism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Motorcycle Maintenance, a volume far richer, more vital and, ultimately, more interesting. Florman's book is weakened by its argumentative tone. Still, it is clear, erudite and occasionally eloquent, valuable reading for engineers given to self-scrutiny and a stimulating one for the layman interested in the ancient schism between machines and men's souls...
...movement have isolated themselves behind upper-middle class goals and rhetoric. The promoters of the ERA--mostly well-off, independent women--made a pathetic stab at communicating with women whose economic status, life-style and roles differed from their own. And Woman to Woman demonstrates how patently absurd this schism...
...Moonchildren tries to take on too much--anti-war demonstrations, the "generation gap," cohabitation: Weller can't organize the bits and pieces of these students' lives into a coherent whole. His play's major flaw is the schism between the student world and the adult world; an assortment of "real" people enter and exit, but their collective intrusion is distracting rather than dramatic...
There is already impassioned talk of schism, whether the convention says yes or no. If ordination wins, the bishops may propose a local-option solution like that adopted by the Anglican Church of Canada, where each diocese has the right to decide whether to ordain women as priests. Chicago's Bishop James Montgomery says he would not bar ordinations in his diocese, but he might refuse to conduct them himself...
...schism; it's a purge," argues the Rev. Richard Neuhaus, Brooklyn pastor, author and political activist. "Preus won't let us stay in and believe and practice what we have for 20 years. We are not pulling out; we are being forced...