Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...volcano: the conflict over state-school funds between Socialists and anticlericals on the one hand and Belgian Catholics on the other. Last year, when the present Liberal-Socialist government came into office, Socialist Leo Collard, the new Minister of Education, quickly made it clear that he intended to favor secular schools in the allotment of state education subsidies. In the previous Catholic government the principle of equal treatment had been applied to state schools, with some 712,000 pupils, and Catholic schools, with...
Word of Honor. Because Uruguay's government is constitutionally secular, the oath of office that Batlle Berres swore a few minutes later in Congress' circular marble hall was taken on a copy of the constitution rather than a Bible, and on his personal honor rather than in God's name. Eight other men, members of Uruguay's Swiss-style council of state, did likewise. Five are from Batlle Berres' Colorado Party; three chosen members will take the presidency in succeeding one-year terms after their chief has served for the first year. The other councilors...
Maudlin or Morbid. Pope turned a searing blast of his flamethrower on the out-and-out secular as well as the bogus Christian. "If you give nearly eighty percent of your time to entertainment and two percent to religion, the implications of that fact are not lost on the public ... If religious programs are often maudlin, a high percentage of the other programs is simply morbid...
...Preachers yesterday in Memorial Chapel. Buttrick said that it is impossible to know life's goal while constantly hurrying, and pointed out that Christ had none of our excessive speed. "We have the appearance of people pursued," said Buttrick. "This is strange, for our human wisdom, even on the secular level, endorses God's method of slowness...
...partners in coalition governments in Belgium and The Netherlands. The Labor Party is Her Majesty's Opposition in Great Britain, and its chances of coming into power are about fifty-fifty. The Social Democrats are the strongest single party in opposition to Chancellor Adenauer. But socialism as a secular faith, possessed of a set of infallible principles capable of curing all the ills of the economic order, has hit an intellectual low point...