Word: splinterable
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...change in the electoral system. Presidential candidates would still need this wide web of support; the lack of party money and party workers would still discourage and inhibit maverick challengers. On balance, though, the Bayh amendment would probably weaken the two-party system, encourage the entrance of splinter candidates, and stimulate the ideological divisions in a system that has usually avoided them...
Almost any number can play, however, and this year-the Conservatives' "on" year-the strongest of Pastrana's three opponents turned out to be old Dictator Rojas, who had conveniently become a splinter Conservative for the occasion. With little support from the basically apolitical army, Rojas, now 70, effectively drummed up enthusiasm among the peasants. Touring the barrios, he played the populist, promising cars for everybody and warning of a "dialogue of daggers" with the ruling elite...
...strategically stationed throughout the crowded aircraft suddenly sprang to their feet. At first some passengers thought that it was only some kind of show or trick. Then the youths pulled out daggers and short, curved samurai swords. Some of them shouted, "We are the Red Army"-an extremist splinter group of the leftist Zengakuren student movement...
...perhaps, is his understanding that man in the 20th century has indulged in such an orgy of self-depreciation that he grows violent in self-revulsion. There is, mourns Spock, "an unprecedented loss of belief in man's worthiness." Art becomes grotesquerie, music a concert where the players splinter their instruments in a convulsion that suggests strychnine poisoning. "This represents emotional regression all the way back to the one-to-two-year-old level," Spock writes briskly, "when the child in a spell of anger wants to antagonize and mess and destroy on a titanic scale." What troubles...
...thus attacked with impunity, no one-faculty, administrator, or student-is secure from the threat of such attacks from those radicals who hold that scholarly work serves objectives and often evil functions. For tactical reasons, leaders of radical groups may confine their attacks to administrators for the moment, but splinter groups or individual members may decide to be more adventurous; indeed, some at Harvard have already done so, in actions such as last spring's classroom disruptions, and this fall's assault on the Center for International Affairs...