Word: splinters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scholar in Romance literature and one of the university's outstanding teachers. Grob has helped muster the majority of the Rice faculty behind the demonstration. He thinks that the observance will convince the public that opposition to the war "is not a radical movement or a splinter movement but goes across all spectrums of political thought on campus...
...There is a lot of fear that the SMC people are the old YSA people, and a desire that old left-wing splinter groups shouldn't dominate the movement," one Moratorium spokesman said yesterday. "On the other hand, they accuse us of unnecessary red-baiting, and feel that we sold out to the Democratic party...
...involved in this demonstration. This was done by a splinter group of the group that walked out of SDS last June. While SDS is committed to fighting the ways that the university aids American Imperialism, and that includes attacking the Center, I am opposed to the tactics of the action taken by RYM. First of all, it is clear that the Center cannot be stopped or even seriously harrassed by such isolated terrorist tacitics. Any successful fight is going to have to involve huge numbers of students. The RYM members made no attempt to explain either the nature...
AFTER years of living with the Wall, West Berliners last week accepted the eighth anniversary of its construction almost with a shrug. Local politicians and union leaders laid wreaths near places where refugees had been killed trying to escape from the East. A new political splinter group called for a night-time march to the Wall, to the point where in 1962 East German guards shot 18-year-old Peter Fechter and then left him on the ground to bleed to death. There were few marchers...
Ever since the 1830s, when sectionalism and new waves of immigration began to splinter American Lutheranism, denominational unity has seemed an all but unattainable dream. Ethnic, political and doctrinal differences have frustrated efforts toward ecumenism; by the turn of the century there were 21 separate Lutheran church groups in the U.S. But the goal of unity remained. Last month it became more attainable than ever when the dogmatically conservative Lutheran Church/Missouri Synod (2.8 million U.S. members) narrowly voted to accept "altar and pulpit fellowship" with the slightly more liberal American Lutheran Church (2.6 million members...