Word: splintered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Unfortunately the millennial temple site is in the hands of one of many splinter groups. The largest of these is the "Reorganized" Latter-day Saints (186,000 members), formed by Smith's heirs, who opposed Young's takeover...
...Andre Breton's "Surrealist Manifesto." A pamphlet alone, of course, could not channel the direction of all creative artistic endeavor completely or all at once. Breton was to discover this as early as 1929, when increasing arguments among early Surrealists about the value of automatism began to splinter the group; but in the early 1920s, Breton's writings put forward a new way of looking at life as a whole. Surrealism began as a literary movement, but its tenets led beyond culture--even though, today, it is chiefly manifested in art--towards what the Chilean artist Sebastion Antonio Matta Echaurren...
Though the outcome of any general election is impossible to call right now, some savvy politicians are making a prediction: another hung Parliament, with neither party gaining a majority on its own. Once again the betting is that the splinter groups-the Liberals, the Ulster Unionists, the Scottish Nationalists-will hold the power to set the course of government...
Renato Curcio, 36, the handsome, bearded convict who is thought to have founded the organization, exemplifies the movement and its methods. Curcio, now on trial in Turin with 48 other brigatisti,* established a leftist splinter group at the University of Trento in 1967. Members immersed themselves in Marx, Mao and Che Guevara...
...South African leader whose determined advocacy of black rights kept him in prison or under government restriction for the past 18 years; of lung cancer; in Kimberley, South Africa. A follower of Mahatma Gandhi and a believer in nonviolent civil disobedience, Sobukwe founded the Pan-African Congress as a splinter group from the African National Congress in 1959. Following his participation in 1960 demonstrations against the restrictive pass laws that control the lives of South African blacks, Sobukwe was sentenced to three years in jail for "incitement to riot." When his term ended, Parliament passed a law empowering the government...