Word: sectarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...civic religion from the outset. Struggling against the strong currents of moderation, the New Left formulated a coherent criticism of the very premises of the nation's liberal tradition; it thus attracted a massive following of skeptics where earlier 20th century movements on the Left never got beyond sectarian battles over how best to attack the conservative beast...
WITH LITTLE FANFARE, the New Jersey Legislature last week approved a bill requiring public schools to set aside a minute of silence before each day gets underway. Garden State law-maker have for years tried to pass off such a measure as a non-sectarian incentive for adolescent introspection a perfect opportunity for the tykes to contemplate their relative positions in the cosmos. fortunately, former Governor Brendan Byrne saw through this poorly disguised drive for state sponsored prayer and killed two bills identical to the current legislation. Governor Robert Kean a conservative Republican, has not yet indicated his position...
...such horror was the Sept. 14 assassination of President-elect Bashir Gemayel, Amin's younger brother. That atrocity had threatened to engulf Lebanon in sectarian turmoil and gave Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon an excuse to send his troops into West Beirut. Late last week Gemayel's Phalangist Party announced the arrest of a man suspected of planting the deadly bomb in its East Beirut party headquarters. He was described only as someone in contact with "foreign quarters." There were no such leads, however, in the death last week of PL.O. Chief of Staff Saad Sayel, better known...
...Remember don't show her the C I A sectarian." Tribbie warms as White leads a victor into the tunnels...
Bashir fought and killed when he found it necessary, but after his election the man who was considered a narrow and fanatical sectarian by his enemies acknowledged that he had to make concessions to non-Christian communities if he were to develop a national consensus...