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...have "never" held power. Gladstone, Asquith and Lloyd George were among the Prime Ministers who headed Liberal or Liberal-dominated governments. An ideological split in 1918 was the cause of the decline of the Liberals, which in turn resulted in the rise of the Labor Party. If the present schism in the Labor Party continues, the centrist Liberal Party may yet prove to be a political phoenix...
DURING THE great schism in French cinema many years ago, when the New Wave reared its vicious little head, Francois Truffaut emerged on the side of the angels. A sentimentalist and romantic, Truffaut seemed to lose any grittiness he once had. The tough but compassionate voyeur lost the harsh edges, the very qualities much of the filmmaking world was exploring with a vengeance The Truffaut of The 400 Blows gave way to the Truffaut of The Man Who Loved Women and Day for Night. He treated even his most repellent characters with extraordinary affection. When Trauffaut took a role...
With considerably more grace than Baumer, John Paul cited the 450th anni versary and told a gathering of Lutheran leaders that Catholics must take their share of the blame for Luther's great schism: "We must do what unites. We owe that to God and the world." But when Lutheran Bishop Eduard Lohse pressed bluntly for joint Communion, John Paul said that full doctrinal agreement must come first...
Harvard Business School Professor Alfred D. Chandler Jr. traces the origins of the schism in the American system to the late 19th century, when large enterprises, notably the railroads, often ignored the interests of local communities. The citizens of these communities began looking to the Federal Government as a brake on economic barons. Since World War II, this process has gone wild. Richard G. Darman and Laurence E. Lynn Jr. of the J.F.K. government school estimate that 40% of all decisions involving corporate capital investment now are determined by considerations other than profits or the best interests of shareholders...
...schism between old line Independents--the ethnic and neighborhood conservatives--and liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) politicians was as deep as ever after the election, but the balance between the two groups may have shifted subtly...