Word: schism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Great Schism between these two branches of Christianity is traditionally dated from mutual excommunications hurled in 1054 by Rome and Constantinople (as Istanbul was called until 1930). In 1204 Crusaders sacked Constantinople and temporarily installed a Latin-rite Patriarch. Today there are still differences about such matters as divorce (the Orthodox permit it on grounds of adultery and allow no more than three marriages in a lifetime), and especially the Nicene Creed. The Orthodox insist on the original wording of the creed, in which the Holy Spirit "proceeds from the Father." Catholicism adds that the Spirit proceeds from "the Father...
...winners divided the house of Sweden's Karolinska Institute. The 15-member Nobel Selection Committee had sifted through nominees and sent a name or names to the full 54-member Nobel Assembly, but that choice was overturned after a lengthy debate. Though no rejected names were divulged, the schism was apparently an ideological one: some institute members insisted that winners be confined to scientists engaged in basic research, while others felt that achievements in medical technology should also be considered. The choice of the CAT-scanner pioneers seemed a perfect compromise. Their work with abstract physics and mathematics resulted...
...amiable arrival ceremony, Deputy Foreign Minister Wang Youping, who headed the Chinese mission, smiled broadly as he shook hands with the chief Soviet negotiator, Deputy Foreign Minister Leonid llyichev. Wang expressed hope for "positive results" and, reviving an old bromide from the fraternal era before the Sino-Soviet schism began in 1959, declared that "the Chinese and Soviet people have built and developed a profound friendship over long years of common revolutionary struggle...
Believers demanded an end to government restraints, as well as a democratic vote in the choice of council leaders. Though the hated orders were rescinded, the bond of trust between the leadership and the more impassioned Baptists was broken. The Reformers formally went into schism, setting up their own church council with the Rev. Gennadi Kryuchkov, now 52, as president and Vins as secretary. To dramatize the need for an overhaul of Soviet legal restrictions on religious life, Vins and Kryuchkov led a daring march on Communist Party headquarters...
...many other black intellectuals do not share that enthusiasm. Some insist she has played into the hands of the white Establishment, which, according to Howard University Psychologist Harriette McAdoo, is all too "eager to believe there is a schism between black men and black women." Many regard her account of the great biracial crusade of the 1960s as a historical distortion, and as Sociologist Robert Staples of the University of California at San Francisco insists, "a slur on everything that went on in the movement and everyone who took part." Others acknowledge that there are indeed tensions between black...