Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...claim," says Attorney William Bradford, who is defending the school board, "is that secular humanism is not a religion, and even if it were a religion, there is no evidence it is being espoused in these texts." The common legal definition of a religion specifies belief in a superior being, which would seem to be the very antithesis of secular humanism. Before the plaintiffs' attorneys rested their case last week, they called expert witnesses in an attempt to resolve this apparent contradiction. University of Virginia Sociologist James D. Hunter characterized secular humanism as the functional equivalent of a religion...
Government is designed to cope with what isn't always a very comprehensible or just world. By capitulating to our need for understanding we prevent ourselves from engaging in constructive governmental efforts. Unless we are willing to accept the tragedy as exactly that, superstition, not common sense, will reign in politics...
...considered the fact that the game was telecast live, that in the cozy confines of my common room I could watch the game, with a case of beer in the fridge and no one around to card me when I reached...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN '39 sure can throw a party. It was late, one o'clock in the morning, yet all the dignitaries were assembled in the Adams House Junior Common room--President Bok, Dean Epps, the Adams House Masters--to hear the maestro speak about his latest world tour...
...dinner where Bernstein was supposed to give his speech, he told of "the Enemy" that people create to give life a clearer purpose. As a country, we force the Soviet Union into that role, Bernstein argued--putting down the scotch on the rocks and spraying ashes on the Junior Common Room carpet--just as in our own lives we may hold a grudge against a neighbor...