Word: schism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...generalissimo refused to recognize their dynastic claims and subsequently expelled Prince Xavier from the country. In recent years, a family feud between Xavier's sons-Leftist Prince Hugo and Traditionalist Prince Sixto-has divided the Carlist Party. Their father's death is expected to deepen this schism...
This theme of estrangement, from self and from others, is central to The Idiot. In some songs, the schism is complete. The vision is desolate, but Iggy sings with a knowing irony that rescues the lyrics from irrelevance. "Nightclubbing" manages to be ironic and sincere at once; the vacuous lyrics and monotonous melody, over an intriguing background of piano and synthesizer that creates a suitable cabaret mood, suggest self-ridicule and sorrow...
...precedes all Episcopal ordinations: "If any of you know any impediment or crime because of which we should not proceed, come forward now and make it known." Immediately Indiana Layman Robert 'Strippy rose to condemn the proceedings as "heresy" and "sacrilege." Said he: "The result can only be schism from the body of Christ." With that a dozen people, many of them in tears, marched out of the church...
...schism started a month ago at an OPEC price-setting conference in Qatar, when Saudi Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani and his allies in the Emirates refused to go along with the majority's demand for a 10% hike on Jan. 1, to be followed by a further 5% hike at midyear. The Saudis and the U.A.E. limited their increase to 5% for the full year. Thus, for the first time since OPEC began quintupling petroleum prices in late 1973, the oil cartel split into opposing camps. In order to hold down prices, the Saudis, who are OPEC...
...such a move, its appeal in the U.S. is doubtful. A number of priests in the U.S. still defiantly say the forbidden Tridentine Mass, but their bishops generally ignore them, content to remind Catholics that the Mass is illicit. Some of these priestly recalcitrants might conceivably join a Lefebvre schism; at least one was at the Lille Mass. But the conservative Catholic press in the U.S. has warned readers that Lefebvre's actions are wrong, and loyally backed Pope Paul...