Word: split
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Intercommunalism. The split was further complicated when Newton read nine of the remaining defendants out of the party. Their offense, apparently, was an open letter to the Weatherman faction last month, critical of Moore and Tabor. The party and other supporters had arranged their bail ($150,000) because of the pair's leadership qualities. Both Tabor, 24, and Moore, 28, had been counted on to attract support-and money-for those still in jail. Their performance failed to live up to expectations. But no one thought that Moore and Tabor would run out. It had seemed that they were...
...militant splinter group of the I.R.A. known as the Provisionals. Unhappy with the official I.R.A.'s inability to protect Catholics from Protestant attacks and its failure to make any headway toward uniting Ulster's six counties with the 26 counties of the Irish Republic, the Provisionals split off from the old guard after the 1969 riots. About five months ago, they began stirring up the Catholics against the 6,900 British troops sent to Ulster to restore peace. It was not difficult to do so, given British domination and often abuse that goes back 800 years...
Written Paint. With hindsight, it is difficult to look at the broad, loosely brushed planes of primary color in Marin's watercolor of 1921, Red and Green and Blue-Autumn, without thinking of Philip Guston or Hans Hofmann; and Marin's Cape Split. Maine, with its fuzzy-edged, vibrating and organic shapes held together by tense flicks of line, equally suggests Gorky or the early De Kooning. Near the end of his life, Marin was almost literally writing the paint onto his canvases -his own title for a 1950 oil was The Written Sea-with an immediacy...
...split in the antiwar movement developed after the disintegration last year of the New Mobilization Committee...
...Mobe split into two groups: the National Peace Action Coalition (NPAC), headed by Don Gurewitz, Jerry Gordon, Ruth Gage-Colby, and other student Mobilization Committee leaders, and the more militant People's Coalition for Peace and Justlce (PCPJ), lead by Rennie Davis and David Dellinger...