Word: sectarianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Real America? Schuyler Cammann travels in the tradition of the scholar-adventurer, and his book, The Land of the Camel, cleaves to the best in its tradition (truthfulness, a sense of moral involvement, good humor) while shunning the worst (bad writing, political or sectarian tirade, excessive footnotarianism...
Last week Nat Low collided with a member of his own backfield. In a letter to Peoples World, Sports Editor Lester Rodney of Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker wrote: ". . . My friend Nat Low has in a sectarian moment gone hogwild on football ... By and large . . . it's still a fine game . . . Nat is actually exceedingly silly when he takes the high-school chants about rocking 'em and socking 'em and reads a process of blood-seeking brutalization into...
Realizing this deep-seated difference between Catholic and non-sectarian institutions, the average member of the latter has the impression that religion is "thrown at" the students of a non-secular school, day and night, to the point of inciting narrow-mindedness. This is definitely not true of the school on the side of Mount St. James in Worcester...
Last week, in an opinion written by Justice Clarence E. Case, the New Jersey Supreme Court declared that "the Old Testament is not a sectarian book when read without comment . . . While it is necessary that there be a separation between church and state, it is not necessary that the state should be stripped of religious sentiment...
...Bainton, a Quaker and a Yale professor of church history, carefully details the character and extent of the great crisis that was set in motion that day. Within 13 tumultuous years the Luther energy had blasted Christianity out of its late-medieval lethargy, ripped the universal church to sectarian shreds, created the Protestant movement and set its main direction...