Word: splintered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...showoff, but he never really was a rebel, then or later. Says a friend: "No vine leaves in his hair -the Greeks are not in him.'3-Even Cozzens' career as a Harvard ('26) hell-raiser was brief. At Harvard he was part of a splinter intelligentsia-Poet-Instructor Robert Hillyer, Classicist Dudley Fitts et al.-and kept flailing away at a novel that appeared early in his sophomore year. Aptly titled Confusion, it concerned a shimmering young sylph named Cerise D'Atreé who was caught in the Fitzgerald undertow and dragged to an early...
...Chicago Young Communist Leaguer. He denies that he is a Communist, although government officials are convinced he keeps in close touch with the Kremlin. He talks of forming a postelection coalition with a former ally, Forbes Burnham, 36, a mercurial Negro lawyer with Communist leanings of his own, whose splinter wing of the P.P.P. may win up to four seats...
...strong, was puzzling its way down a noisy and crowded political midway. With balloting for a constitutional assembly only a fortnight away, Buenos Aires was bright with posters, clamorous with speeches, angry with sporadic fistfights. At week's end there were 56 parties in the race, and new splinter groups and alliances were born by the day, few of them with any hint of a program. An awesome total of 2,183 candidates was competing for the 205 assembly seats...
...splinter companies of the war-racked Farben trust started working from the moment the shooting stopped. Bayer got the first postwar production permit in the British occupation zone, and the other Farben companies rushed to follow. The market was enormous, since Germany had no money to import such vitally needed products as drugs, fertilizers and dyes. To replace the plants and patents lost to the Allies, the companies plowed back 20% of their sales into buildings and research. B.A.S.F., for example, has applied for 3,900 new chemical patents since the war, now bases only 200 of its thousands...
...Assisi could also look out to a growing network of more or less affiliated Franciscan groups, for no order has been more beset with sectarianism. Soon after St. Francis' death, his simplicity and fervor living on in his followers caused a profusion of Franciscan-rule sects and splinter groups-Spirituals, Moderates. Celestines, Observants, Intransigents. In 1517 the Conventuals were constituted a separate order; they permit their monasteries to hold property (most other Franciscan property is held and administered by the Holy See), and they wear black habits, shoes and birettas. The more ascetic Franciscans split from the order...