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...case involved Pawtucket's use of public funds ($1,365 initially, $20 a year now) to buy and then reerect annually a crèche as part of a Christmas display that also featured such secular holiday symbols as reindeer and a Santa Claus house. Chief Justice Burger, writing for the court majority, found the Nativity scene to be a "passive" symbol and its presence in the display "no more an advancement or endorsement of religion than...the exhibition of literally hundreds of religious paintings in governmentally supported museums." Said Burger: "We are unable to perceive the Archbishop...
...there is a sense in Israel that they are becoming more like Americans, copying fashions and fads, desiring more material benefits, and losing a unique moral vision (whether secular or religious). This, though, has nothing to do with the Lebanon. Instead it has to do with the process of institutionalization encountered by a second or third generation of settlers...
...certain people's saviour. Every occasion is improper for anti-Semitic gestures, but none could be more irreverent. Historically, Christmas has proved an uncomfortable season, both emotionally and physically, when tides of ill will against Jews climaxed in central and western Europe. Now, happily, participants in a secular world, we share the universal message of the Christian holy day. My intruder may even have enjoyed seasonal music I played Christmas Eve on a temporary return to my dorm. But by then, the deed had been done...
Eakins' masterpiece, The Gross Clinic, 1875, certainly bridges two cultural worlds. On the one hand, one can read it as a very American icon of progress; it is a fervent, secular celebration of objective scientific knowledge, with the realism of paint serving that of science. Dr. Gross, light shining from his high forehead and glittering on his bloody hand and scalpel, is a pragmatic hero, and his skill is set before us as part of his American nature...
...Jack Kemp (R.N.Y.)--becomes the political pawn of Gerard V. Oxboggle, president of Glominoid Corporation. And as a conservative representative. Forehead is the tool of every right-wing cause, from maniacal weapons manufacturers to preachy Southern Senator Clancy Fumes (a.k.a. Jesse Helms). Fumes lives in righteous fear of "secular humanist liberals" and plots to replace the Supreme Court with a panel of the four TV evangelists with the top Neilsen ratings...