Word: seculare
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Tucked in among the stories about the Church are several secular ones, which underline the confusion in the modern world. A three-page story that most clearly reveals Powers's disenchantment with modern society opens with a short clipping from a magazine, part of a first-person account of wifeswapping. A Christmas letter from one of the couples to the other follows, but where you expect at least some mention of the intimate experience that the four shared, you find only the details of the lawnmower they owned in common before one couple moved away (each couple owned $44 worth...
...nominate Yasser Arafat for Man of the Year because he elucidated the only possible solution for the Middle East: one secular democratic state of Palestine where Jews, Moslems and Christians can live together peacefully...
...quashed. But Arab lobbying won in the end. The resolution passed easily, 72-35, with 32 abstentions. Two other resolutions directed against Israel were approved by much wider margins. One creates a 20-member committee to try to set up in what is now Israel the sort of "democratic secular state" the Palestine Liberation Organization has demanded. The other mandates a seat for the P.L.O. at any Geneva talks on the Middle East, a condition that Israel adamantly rejects...
...swept along by the plot. The buildings were meant to unfold. This feeling for ritual movement, the promenade, would almost disappear from architecture in the 20th century; and yet it was functional. Gamier was one of the last to recognize that fantasy and ceremonial had valid roles in secular architecture. People did not just go to the opera to see performance; they went to enjoy a ritual called "going to the opera." In the Paris Opera, Gamier enshrined that ritual. "How large should the foyer be?" he enquired in a book, Le Theatre, written four years before the Opera opened...
...Christianity, in common with a large body of secular thought, also holds that the patient, the family and their doctors are not morally required to use every conceivable means to sustain a damaged life. In Catholicism, which has the most developed literature on such questions, one notable exponent of this view was the brilliant 17th century Spanish Cardinal Juan de Lugo, who said "ordinary" efforts are required, but "extraordinary" methods...