Word: sancta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...traditional concept of Torah (Biblical law), the Reconstructionists maintain, "should be expanded" to include 1) ethical culture, "the fostering of love and justice"; 2) sancta, the heroes, events, texts, places and seasons that are symbolically significant to a people; and 3) "esthetic culture, the arts as a means of expressing the emotional values of Jewish life...
...fellow politicians. He reads three to four books a week: currently, besides Robert Sherwood's Roosevelt and Hopkins, he is devouring a heap of volumes on a new interest, Africa. He has not lost his lust for Latin. On an indifferently argued staff paper he scribbles: "0 sancta sim-plicitas...