Word: schisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...compulsion of another sort drives Schism (Crown; 310 pages; $12.95), by Bill Granger. Father Leo Tunney, a Roman Catholic missionary and sometime CIA operative, totters back to civilization from the Cambodian jungle, where he has been missing for 20 years. Why? Before shipping him back to his order in Florida, the Company does its unsubtle best to pry the answer from the emaciated priest. Back home, Tunney attracts a lot of professional interest. There is a top KGB operative from Moscow, a sacerdotal snooper from the Vatican, a cold-blooded loner from...
...Last Days of America, Erdman 10. Schism, Granger...
...most serious criticisms continue to be based on a philosophical schism that has divided the council throughout the existence of rent control. While CCA members and Velluci see the need for social constrainst to protect the poor and elderly, many of the Independents continue to resent city codes which prevent landlords from dealing in the free market. Rent control, they say, subsidizes many wealthy professionals, discourages maintenance, and victimizes landlords...
Financial aid, career opportunities and feelings of alienation are the issues that most concerned Harvard's working-class students at the first meeting of Working-Class Students at Harvard, a group formed last year to "bridge the schism between the two worlds of working-class students," last night in Phillips Brooks House...
...early church. In the mid-5th century, however, the Coptic church defied orthodox Christian teaching by adhering to the so-called Monophysite heresy, the belief that Jesus Christ had one nature that mystically united his humanity and divinity, rather than two distinct natures, human and divine. Schism ensued, and Coptic Christians were persecuted under the Byzantine Empire...