Word: sectarianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dispute came to a head at a recent central committee meeting. Shiga warned against Titoist tendencies in the Japanese party leadership. Nozaka and Tokuda, he charged, showed "sectarian" disregard for criticism, ignored "the great role [of the] Cominform . . . and Soviet Union in the forefront of internationally advancing people's power," and stuck dangerously to outmoded notions of a popular front with bourgeois elements. "The time has come, comrades," exhorted Shiga, "to bend our utmost efforts toward the bolshevization of the party." When Nozaka and Tokuda squelched the memo in which Shiga set forth his views, Shiga let it leak...
...Church of St. Luke and the Epiphany, author (Lincoln and Herndon, The Builders, River of Years'), onetime syndicated columnist ("Everyday Religion"); in Merion, Pa. Impatient of denominational differences ("barbed-wire entanglements about the Altar of God"), Dr. Newton was ordained a Baptist, served in several non-sectarian churches, including London's City Temple ("Cathedral of British Nonconformity"), before joinin'g the Protestant Episcopal Church...
...denominations are whose possible participation is envisaged ... It involves no doctrinal problems . . . Instead, it assumes that we are now sufficiently of one heart and one mind to live together in the fellowship of one church, if only we are willing to let the already well-breached walls of our sectarian churchism utterly crumble away...