Word: schisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loosely based on Hurok's 1946 autobiography, Impresario. Hurok (David Wayne) is depicted as a sort of Russian Horatio Alger who migrated to America, and became in short order the Barnum of the arts by purveying musical culture to the masses. For drama, the picture develops a domestic schism between Hurok and his wife (Anne Bancroft), caused by his excessive devotion to his work...
...around to wage a torrid scoop- skirmish with the rebel sensationalists. The "100 Days War" finally came to an end by June when the Journal-ists had had it financially and academically; the victorious Crime emerged a far more modern and readable paper than it had been before the schism...
...important part of the Index is not the listed titles, but the fine Latin print in the introduction, citing the twelve classes of books which Catholics are not to read. They include: non-Catholic editions of the Bible, books attacking Catholic dogma, books defending "heresy or schism," books which "discuss, describe or teach impure or obscene matters." A volume fulfilling any of these specifications, whether it was published before or after 1600, is as fully banned as if it were mentioned by name. Many books, therefore, that to Catholics obviously fit one of these classifications are not even mentioned...
...adversary in its preachments to confuse many good people. Liberals who confused democracy and Communism during the '303 can take comfort from the fact that Dante, writing The Divine Comedy 700 years after Mohammed's death, still mistakenly placed the prophet among the Christian "sowers of schism...
...title and a double authorship is bound to be somewhat disconnected. "The General and the President and the Future of American Foreign Policy" is disjointed to a certain extent, but all things considered, authors Schlesinger and Rovere have done a competent and interesting historic-reporting job on the great schism between General MacArthur and President Truman...