Word: splinteredness
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A good example is Boston's Dana Chandler Jr., a product of the tough Roxbury ghetto. At 28 he is a painter whom few in Boston can ignore, since his huge, bright Black Power murals glare from the sides of buildings that people pass by every day. Chandler'...
Every year, 100 million worn rubber tires and 26 billion nonreturnable glass bottles are discarded in the U.S. Disposing of them is a formidable problem, usually resolved by burning evil-smelling mountains of tires and burying tons of splintered glass. But there soon may be a neater and more practical...
Especially among the young there is always a tendency to extol opposites. Just as many American youths seem to yearn for the collective, nonmaterialistic life, many young people in Communist countries seem to admire some (but by no means all) of the individualism and the material benefits of Western society...
In a sense quite different from McLuhan's, tribalism will be a more "pervasive danger to the political stability than nationalism. In the wake of economic disasters, India might break apart, splintered by its divergent peoples. Indeed, so powerful is the attraction of regional autonomy that even the advanced...
of the NLF." Support of the NLF is stressed by the NAC. "The Left has gotten splintered into quarreling factions. It is important that people begin to do something, and something that will help the NLF," the spokesman said. "Something to build a non-cooptible anti-war movement that demands...