Word: schisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Also, the effect of the schism on the Panthers' radical backers is unknown. Both Party members and their coterie of white supporters are chronically anxious about bad publicity, especially since the Party's popularity as a political cause among whites seems to have declined over the past year...
Black Panther Robert Webb, 22, moved from San Francisco to New York about a year ago. In the growing Panther schism between supporters of Huey Newton, the party's Oakland-based minister of defense, and Eldridge Cleaver, now exiled in Algiers, Webb sided with Cleaver. Last week Webb and two friends were walking along a Harlem street when they encountered several other blacks who were selling the party newspaper; since the publication is Newton-controlled, the Cleaver wing has proscribed it. Webb tried to stop the men from hawking it, but three of them drew guns and fired...
Most of today's economists, however, have been reared in the Keynesian faith, and they lean toward the Democratic Party. The monetarists, on the other hand, tend to identify with Republicans. The ensuing clash of philosophies thus involves high policy, politics and the fervor of a religious schism. Nixon's half-successful jawboning against steel-price increases suggests that Friedman may have lost his most illustrious convert. After his recently televised "conversation," the President remarked casually to a startled TV commentator: "I am now a Keynesian...
...WITH the schism between Faculty members widening, the growth of the caucuses during the Spring crisis seems not only logical but necessary. By taking over University Hall in the Spring of 1969, SDS had forced the Faculty hand on ROTC. By calling in the police, Pusey forced the issue of Faculty power. While conservatives pooh-poohed the existence of an administration separate from the Faculty, President Pusey and his Council of Deans had shown it not only existed but could act powerfully and autonomously...
...failing to portray the Negro as a matter of routine and in the context of the total society, the news media have, we believe, contributed to the black-white schism in this country. They have not communicated to the majority of their audience-which is white-a sense of the degradation, misery and hopelessness of living in the ghetto. They have not shown understanding or appreciation of-and thus have not communicated-a sense of Negro culture...