Word: sectarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PHILLIPS BROOKS HOUSE NO LONGER amuses itself with beauty contests for Radcliffe freshmen. No longer do Thank a giving "turkeys," as volunteers were called 20 years ago, deliver holiday baskets to poor families in a spirit of noblesse oblige. No longer does PBH retain the sectarian thrust of the organization as founded in 1900 to "nurture undergraduate spiritual improvement by enhancing the charity, compassion and public spirit of these leaders." PBH is still engaged in a 72-year-old struggle to define a satisfactory role for volunteer work in terms of society's needs and demands. What has evolved...
Driving Jeeps. The two men will need to heal a rift between religious and secular Israelis that has been exacerbated recently by sectarian disputes and narrow rabbinical vision. Religious control over marriage law has prompted some legislators to suggest a limited civil marriage law. Goren now asks that the bill's backers postpone introducing it for a year "to prove what we can do" by way of sophisticated interpretation of the law to accommodate both religious and nonreligious Jews. "Perhaps," says Goren, "we can create a whole new atmosphere and build a bridge of love between the two communities...
...agony of Northern Ireland is generally dated from the sectarian riots of August 1969, when 300 British troops were airlifted in to restore order. Since then, by British army estimate, there have been 2,200 bomb explosions, an average of more than two a day, and 541 deaths. Ulstermen have had to accustom themselves to the surrealistic world of urban guerrilla warfare; violence has become almost as common as shepherd's pie, and assassination squads move through Belfast with ease. TIME Correspondent William Rademaekers cabled these impressions of a city that has in many ways become accustomed to horror...
...Eisenhower, a renovated Nixon-can appeal to enough groups to get elected. In a party that claims the allegiance of only 30% of the nation's voters, a divisive candidate inevitably goes down to defeat. Yet Agnew and the forces behind him are following the same well-trodden sectarian route that leads nowhere except to a certain ideological satisfaction. It would be an irony indeed if in the very year that Longtime Loser Richard Nixon finally joins the roster of the big winners, his party should start throwing away his hard-won gains...
Although both the I.R.A. and the U.D.A. were clearly under pressure from the peacemakers, there was still the chance of sectarian conflict erupting again. But meanwhile, British officials pondered ways of negotiating an end to the no-go barricades. Whitelaw was as usual unabashed by the task, even if he chose a harsh simile to express his confidence. As he said last week, quoting an Irishman: "There are more ways of killing a pig than cutting its throat...