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...holiday itself, reminiscent of its stiff-necked Pilgrim forbearers. More than any other date on the calendar, Thanksgiving has remained private and personal, devoid of the tinsel trappings that mar the rest of contemporary life. On this ecumenical holiday, Americans are allowed to be as prayerful or as secular as they choose, with no one complaining that they have somehow taken the thanks out of Thanksgiving...
...elections were prompted by rioting last April among Jordan's Bedouin community, the base of Hussein's support, to protest consumer price hikes. In addition, there was widespread suspicion that recent governments have been riddled with corruption. But the strong showing by the fundamentalists suggested a rejection of the secular Western values personified by the King himself...
There he had no rivals and no clergy breathing censoriously down the back of his neck. Federico II Gonzaga's court was a secular one; not even his tamest eulogists could have called the Duke pious. He was, however, brave, generous, greedy, obsessed with his own virtu (which meant prowess, not virtue) and determined to go down in history for his martial skills, his classical learning and his devotion to all vertical and horizontal forms of the chase. In Giulio, this son of Isabella d'Este found a court artist whose libidinousness and intelligence fit his own. Both men moved...
...final sentence Cohn writes that "[t]he survival of the Jews in America and the modern world depends on the ability to live in a secular society that bears little resemblance to a kosher deli." The ability to live in a secular society is a requirement for the survival of any person. For Jews to survive, however, that is not the only requirement...
...survival of Jews in America and the modern world depends on the ability to live in a secular society that bears little resemblence to a kosher deli...