Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...words. The prose in Cry, the Beloved Country sounded to some like the language of a very gifted high-school senior who has cried Tom Wolfe once too often. To others, especially to those who were not disturbed to find the rhythms of the King James Version forced on secular prose, it sounded like the voice of a new prophet, crying in the wilderness of South Africa.' But most critics agreed that Author Paton' had a very compelling manner, if not a truly original style, and that he had painstakingly wedded manner to matter, especially in describing...
...17th century Shrike (left) is a much later, secular offshoot of Zen drawing. With the swift and eager precision of a swordsman, the artist evoked all autumn in a fierce little bird perched atop a dead branch. Looking into their catalogues, gallerygoers noted without great surprise that Miyamoto Niten was in fact a samurai as famed for his swordsmanship as for his brushwork...
...that certain pitfalls await any clergyman, regardless of stature, who steps into active direction of a secular institution . . . and it is difficult to see how (the divinity student's) position as an embryonic cleric can fall to inject a religious element into the organization. Heading P.B.H. with sectarians might well frighten off undergraduates who prefer to eschew organized religion in their extra-curricular activities. . . . P.B.H. has thrived partly because members have not thought in terms of one another's religion. This is the way it should remain. The Graduate Secretary should continue as a secular post...
...statement of this former clergyman . . . illustrates the words of the bishops of the Anglican Communion at the Lambeth Conference [in 1948]: 'A perplexed generation is in search of an authority to which to give its allegiance and easily submits to the appeal of authoritarian systems, whether religious or secular...
...could always muffle his natural inclination to extend religion in PBH's activities, the precident of a sectarian Secretary would be established. And eventually, some future zealot would act to end the fine tradition of service without reference to any religious belief. The Graduate Secretary should continue as a secular post...