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Word: agnosticism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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After its bleak, interminable passage, Watergate seemed to issue forth into the sunburst of a civics lesson. But what exactly was the content of the lesson? If Watergate was a morality play the question, then as now, was what moral to draw from it The drama transfixed Americans. Mostly, it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watergate's Clearest Lesson | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

This little old lady of Dorset, who was an authority on Tudor church music, had an imagination that unpredictably "caught fire from facts," as she said of T.H. White in her biography of the author of The Once and Future King. Everything took on an enchanted significance for her-dragonflies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Teacup Demons | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

DIED. Henry S. Huntingdon, 99, onetime Presbyterian minister who became a pioneer of nudism in the U.S., serving as the first editor of the movement's magazine (then called the Nudist) and helping to establish one of the country's first nudist camps, at Otis, Mass.; in Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 2, 1981 | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

Daughter of a nonreligious sportswriter, Dorothy was confirmed in the Episcopal Church. She became a socialist agnostic in 1915 at the University of Illinois. "For me Christ no longer walked the streets of this world. He was 2,000 years dead and new prophets had risen up in His place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Street Saint | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

Resurrection risks offending orthodox believers and staunch rationalists alike and finding itself without an audience. Yet the movie manages to maintain its equanimity and effectively synthesize an agnostic faith in love, life, and life after life.

Author: By Jed S. Corman, | Title: Life After Movies | 11/21/1980 | See Source »

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