Word: schisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bisexual. All human beings, Critic Fausset observes, are to some extent bisexual. But Whitman had a great deal more of the woman in him than men normally have. This schism in his nature, Fausset believes, was in part the source of such greatness as he had. It was also the chief source of his failures. Whitman's femininity gave him his tremendous powers for the passive absorption of experience, for sympathy, for the almost bottomless endurance (as in the Civil War hospitals) of massive suffering. But it also accounts for the sentimentality, effusiveness, extreme over-assertiveness, pseudo-masculinity...
...years off & on Author Paul lived on the rue de la Huchette and watched with interest and partisan passion the political schism that split the side street, like the rest of France, into two great hostile camps. But Author Paul's political concern lacks the gusto of his human ribaldry. There is a suggestion that the citizenry of the rue de la Huchette are somehow symbolic of democracy everywhere and that, if they had run things, the Nazis would never have got to Paris. But in view of all that goes before, their pathos...
...President William Green, C.I.O. President Philip Murray to close for the duration the schism between the two labor organizations. With a smile and shake of the hand the labor leaders agreed, went to work at once on a joint labor-policy statement on priorities, rationing and wages, to serve as wartime standards for all unions...
...result of an offer to sing with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Glee Club found it necessary to split with the Banjo and Mandolin in 1919. This schism caused a great deal of trouble in the College...
First the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano published the vigorously anti-Nazi Lenten pastoral of the Most Rev. Conrad Gröber, Archbishop of Freiburg, which German authorities had suppressed. "The schism of the German people is undeniable," the prelate declared, adding that instead of bringing unity the war has made the exclusion of confirmed Catholics more evident. And then he bade his flock reject passive resignation as against "conscience and ... the example of Christ" and urged them to resist Nazi efforts to teach their children anti-Christian doctrines...