Word: religion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...among the minority groups. It must sometimes seem that minority factions are competing for the same piece of the pie. But that attitude is in its very essence a divisive one. A better perspective of progress continues a search for greater equality of opportunity without regard to race, sex, religion, and many other characteristics that contribute to our individuality...
...must consider us very strange creatures. He gives us the finest medical technology in the world, yet he sees parents who refuse to allow their children to accept it [RELIGION, April 16]. Many of these parents consider abortion to be murder. Do they then call withholding medical treatment from children justifiable homicide...
While his contemporaries fell in love or attached themselves to religion or politics, he stood self-consciously aloof, knowing that his teachers admired his linguistic ability and than a very small circle of friends enjoyed his contemptuous altitude toward life. With what predictable withering epigrams he had managed to dismiss those fools who thought the world was worth saving by a change in its political system: With what equally brief violence of phrase he had dealt with the ideas of the God-squad...
...causes more disappointment than glorious realization. Sex and religion are burdens to mankind because of their inability to fulfill their enticing promises...
...example, the play opens and intersperses scenes with flashing lights, organ music, and Gregorian chants a la Young Frankenstein. The audience, though puzzled, is amused, and the playmakers are faithful to Artaud's intention that theatre be the church of an inverted religion exorcising violence from man by acting it out on stage...