Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...measure of Graham Greene's talent as a novelist that he has personified his theological preoccupations in provocative fictions and made them seem fascinating, various and relevant to a secular age. Just how consistent and dogged Greene's grasp upon his own certitudes is may also be observed in this collection of character sketches and literary criticism-not always in ways calculated to enhance his reputation for balanced judgment. Greene writes about the great dead, among them James, Conrad and Hardy, and steadily mines their graves for texts on death, damnation and moral corruption. By compulsively and compassionately...
...penury of players and singers. He must often have felt the decline of contemporary musicianship as he played the organ, directed the choir, and conducted the orchestra at the same time. To the end, he affirmed his dedication to the sacred music whose reign was then work on a secular fugue to write extremely religious chorale fantasia...
...every Negro Christian would agree with this provocative, militant conclusion of Union Theological Seminary's James H. Cone. Today, however, the black churches of the U.S.- which have frequently been accused of excessive caution on civil rights - are rapidly catching up with the secular advocates of Black Power who have created such turmoil in the universities and urban ghettos...
...Skyline will shift its headquarters to Phoenix, where executive talent is more plentiful, but its main manufacturing plants will stay in Elkhart. That city of 40,000 is the capital of the mobile industry, largely because so many of its residents are hard-working Amish carpenters who shun such secular organizations as labor unions...
...Wren's must have been one of the most sizable architectural commissions of all time. In the years between 1670 and 1711, he over saw the design and construction of St. Paul's Cathedral, Chelsea Hospital, most of Greenwich Hospital, portions of Hampton Court, and many lesser secular buildings. His most sustained performance was to design and rebuild the 55 churches destroyed in the fire...