Word: secularism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speech to the Heritage Foundation quoted at length in this week's New Yorker, soon-to-be Speaker of the House Gingrich presented his vision of an America where "a belief in the Creator is once again at the center of defining being an American" and where the "secular anti-religious view[s] of the left" based on a "core vision of a hedonistic, existentialist America" have been stamped...
More and more parents, however, are embracing home schooling for secular reasons. "I've also seen people who are very progressive or liberal," Nathan adds, "and think children are not well served by schools that are too stifling." Others, like the Williamses, are concerned mainly about the safety and the quality of public schools. Parents stress the chance to design a curriculum that is challenging, flexible and tailored to their particular child; to escape the "hidden agenda" -- ranging from capitalist conformity to secular humanism -- that they believe is promoted in public schools; and to have a teacher utterly devoted...
...subject matter are suddenly made vividly relevant. At the center of Richard Eyre's dark, stark yet ever bustling production stands (or rather slumps) the weary figure of the Rev. Lionel Espy (Oliver Ford Davies), a man who has lost not only religious faith but also the consolations of secular humanism with which he has been making do. To the political right and above him is his bishop (Richard Pasco), also faithless but fiercely insistent that his priests honor tradition. Below and to the left of Espy is young Tony Ferris (Adam Kotz), in whom ambition and evangelical zealotry...
Leibovitz's legacy is a politics--indeed a world-view--that is idiosyncratic, defiant and ultimately restless. His life was devoted to an assault on the dangers of ideology, both secular and religious...
...same, no other word will do. Frank's great book, The Americans, 83 black-and-white pictures, published in France in 1958 and in the U.S. one year later, was one of the pivotal events of postwar photography. Its skepticism toward what was then the secular religion of wholesomeness and cheer, its resistance to charm, its out-of-focus foregrounds and deranged angles -- above all, its strange new mood of cool melancholy -- were met with shock at the time. The reception it got from critics -- "warped" and "joyless" were two of the milder descriptions -- is photography's own version...