Word: schisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will matter, for it will give the nation a clear-cut choice between opposing economic and social policies that will influence America's course for decades. The Republican Party came away with one more, possibly last chance to sell its programs to the country and avoid a later, fatal schism or the danger of fading into insignificance...
...fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter of fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful ..." Arnold Toynbee, in his monumental A Study of History, charted Rome and America through similar cycles of triumph, disintegration and collapse; like the empire of Augustus and Tiberius, imperial America could end in "a schism in the soul...
...book, she says that she has found nothing to warrant a change in that judgment. "It is still piratical behavior, even among the new generation of young men," she says. "Sex without commitment and without affection. That is still the prevailing attitude, and it is the reason for the schism between sex and sentiment...
...What is immediately apparent from the election results is that Italy is becoming increasingly split between those who, as "haves," defend the status quo, and those who, as "have-nots," want change. Looking at the tactics of this election campaign, and at the views expressed in its course, this schism seems to have been desired and for the most part created by the party in power, the DC. The question to be answered by both of the "sides" is: can the splitbe overcome in practice, can representatives of all of Italian society work together to attempt to solve some...
Lindsell cites the Lutheran Church -Missouri Synod as a case where "neoliberals" nearly moved an Evangelical denomination away from its traditions before conservatives regained power (thus pushing the church to the brink of schism). Lindsell sees trouble ahead in his own church body, the 12.5-million-member Southern Baptist Convention. Though no conclusive data are available, Lindsell claims that "90% of the people in the pews believe in biblical infallibility." Even so, he sees the infection of liberalism "spreading steadily...