Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...efforts to inflict pain or suffering on any Jewish person." In the current issue of Commentary, Earl Raab, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council in San Francisco, argues that the black-white confrontation in America raises anew "the Jewish question"?the place of Jews in a secular democratic society. "The Jewish question is alive again because the American political structure and its traditional coalitions are in naked transition," writes Raab. "The common democratic commitment trembles...
...more than a hundred years now, what might be called industrial humanism, the dream of total progress through production and distribution, has held general credence in Western civilization. Science, industry, and a morality of shared materialism were linked in a powerful secular religion of consensus...
...Weimar jail for a month. Once he arrived at Cothen, Bach devoted five placid, productive years to superb keyboard and chamber pieces, including the French Suites for harpsichord, the unaccompanied music for cello and violin, and the six Brandenburg Concertos. This period is usually labeled Bach's secular phase, though he was not fussy about the distinction between sacred and secular. Bach often borrowed from his secular music for sacred occasions, just as Martin Luther had used love songs and barrack ballads for some of his chorales. He even turned out such mundane pieces as a song...
...later years, Bach gradually turned away from church composition and developed an even more austere and adventurous secular idiom, seemingly for his own satisfaction. He had always been a teacher, first to his children and then to paying pupils. He was one of the first keyboard instructors to introduce the use of the thumb and to advocate playing with curved rather than straight fingers. He told his composition students that contrapuntal lines should be like people in a conversation-each speaking grammatically, completing his sentences and remaining silent when he had nothing to add. Now, in the compositions...
...concept of the natural supremacy of evil over good in humanity. The Judaeo-Christian tradition eases the anguish by holding out the hope of salvation through the exercise of a semblance of free will in the worldly fight with the Devil's forces. What is an increasingly secular age to do with its knowledge that evil is an inextricable part of man's nature? Face it, says Rubinoff. Bring it out into the open...