Word: religion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is anyone out there who still imagines that modernism is not the official culture of our day, not the secular religion of the U.S., this project will dispel those last illusions. The wing, named for the late co- founder of the Reader's Digest, who was the largest donor, cost $26 million to build and will require an additional $2 million a year for operating expenses. One does not go spending such amounts on the marginal and the controversial -- on what modernism used to be when the chairman of the Met's 20th century department, William S. Lieberman...
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, who issued the famous pronouncement that "violence is as American as cherry pie" when he was known as H. Rap Brown, finds it easy to spread the blame. "Racism is the state religion," says Amin, now the operator of a small dry-goods store in Atlanta. "Racism is to America what Catholicism is to the Vatican. Racism is the religion, and violence is its liturgy to carry it out." More thoughtful observers are less dogmatic. "What causes racism is the most researched question in all of American social science in 80 years," says Thomas Pettigrew...
...Religion...
...reassure wary whites both inside and outside South Africa, Tambo spelled out more clearly than ever the sort of government the A.N.C. leadership envisions for the country. A majority-ruled regime, he vowed, would guarantee freedom of speech, the press and religion, and would outlaw arbitrary arrests or detentions without charge. An accompanying A.N.C. policy statement emphasized the need for creating new wealth instead of merely redistributing existing assets. While refusing to promise that South Africa's whites would be granted special "minority rights" protection under a black majority, Tambo avoided the harsh rhetoric that marked his speeches...
...Religion...