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Ishmael Jaffree had had enough. Throughout the 1981-82 school year, three of his children had been confronted with vocal prayer sessions at their grade schools in Mobile. Jaffree, an agnostic and a lawyer, had objected to the prayers, but got nowhere. Finally he sued, and won rulings that suspended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Uproar Over Silence | 6/17/1985 | See Source »

His third suggestion; the Overpowering Assumption, I think, is best. But not for the reasons he suggests--that the assumption is so cosmic that it might be accepted. It is rarely "accepted"; we aren't here to accept or reject, we're here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal...

Author: By A Grader and Best Wishes, S | Title: A Graders Reply | 1/9/1985 | See Source »

The play's denouement comes with the arrival of Sister Mary's former students who returned for a reunion of sorts. The group reads like a Laundry list of Catholic casualties-an unwed mother, an agnostic who's had two abortions, a homosexual and an alcoholic wife beater who constantly...

Author: By Molly F. Cliff, | Title: A Nun's Worldview | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

Though bitterly opposed by some traditionalists as a mockery of a sacred vow, the new policy is backed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie. Says he: "Fidelity to something which has gone is like asking someone who is an agnostic to be martyred for the faith." If three-fourths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: One More Try | 7/23/1984 | See Source »

The public eye first blinked at him in 1978 when he opened his raincoat in front of a statue in downtown Portland, Ore. A resulting poster, Expose Yourself to Art, sold more than 250,000 copies worldwide and made Bar Owner J.E. ("Bud") Clark, 52, something of a local celebrity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 28, 1984 | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

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