Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lessons in how to keep a straight face in church, they smiled and bowed like old troupers in Chicago's Orchestra Hall. Getting used to applause, said St. Paul's Canon L. John Collins, "is like a snail leaving its house. But the boys have picked up secular work very well." They have also adapted easily to late hours; six boys are usually off each night, go to bed at 8 o'clock. "When this is over," said a choir official, "they shall all be as fit as fleas-and the rest of us will be dead...
...Sisters of Charity convent in Kansas, Cinemactress June Haver, 27, flew home to Los Angeles, her attempt to become a nun at an end. Photographers snapped her getting kissed by her stepfather and mother, Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Ottestad. Ill health was June's reason for returning to secular life: "I was a novice, and it means just that. It's a time of trial, and if you can't do it, well...
...Personal religion, and understanding of and participation in the work of the Church, could apparently in many earlier generations be taken for granted. Latterly, they have tended to ebb away in the all but universal adoration of the state, and in almost idolatrous preoccupation with the secular order, the accumulation of knowledge, and with good works. There is not and cannot be a quarrel with any of these things in themselves, but only with the notion that they are independently sufficient goods...
Benzedrine Letdown. Fearful of wrenching the new-made state apart at the seams, the parliamentarians of the Knesset have been egg-walking through a series of compromises between the secular and sacred. The rabbinate has even made a few tactical concessions (most recent: rescinding the rule that before marriage all brides must produce a "certificate of purity" given after a visit to the ritual bath). But for the most part, Polish-born Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Halevi Herzog and his fellow rabbis have dug in their heels and refused to budge, confident in the prophecy of the great 12th century philosopher...
...young men and women of Israel are reaching for religious forms to give meaning to their new nationhood. Parents who belong to the old secular-socialist tradition of Zionism are finding that their children demand observance of religious festivals; even in the collective farms, which have been called "hotbeds of atheism," young people feast and fast in accordance with the Jewish calendar...