Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mainly drawing on Griswold's legacy. The rejuvenated graduate school, under Economist John Perry Miller, now offers degrees in 52 fields, including two new Ph.Ds. this year in economic history and industrial administration. Last December, Brewster filled the first endowed chair in Roman Catholic studies in a U.S. secular university by hiring away Catholic University Scholar Stephen Kuttner...
...Given Word, the major achievement to date of Brazil's germinal cinema novo, sets forth the tragedy of a simple, devout man who batters out his life against an implacable apparatus of religious and secular authority...
When public schools ban the Bible to duck religious controversy, they recklessly cut off a sturdy taproot of secular culture. To measure the cost, English Teacher Thayer S. Warshaw of crack Newton (Mass.) High School devised a 112-question quiz on simple Biblical allusions, sprang it on five classes of bright, college-bound juniors and seniors. In The English Journal, he reports the result: a sobering case of "cultural deprivation...
...truth shall make you free," 84% flunked "A soft answer turneth away wrath," 88% flunked "Pride goeth before a fall," and a full 93% flunked "The love of money is the root of all evil." Going beyond quiz questions, Warshaw found students missing the whole Biblical point of secular literature-for example, the implication of the final scene in Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, when the old man collapses with his wounded hands outstretched, as in crucifixion...
...suburban Milwaukee, the Rev. Oscar Winninghoff of St. Aloysius' parish, said that his school would discontinue the first four grades in September 1965. Having failed to persuade the local public-school board to build a new 24-room school to educate children of his parish in secular subjects, Father Winninghoff said: "I'm going to quit talking. I'm saying, 'Here are 600 kids -you solve the problem. And I'm giving you a year and a half to solve it.' " Some parochial-school classes have been closed in Green Bay, Wis., Saginaw, Mich...