Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...welter of symbols; yet being the sum of the parts, the whole film comes close to being one big metaphor. Unfortunately, this string of symbols does not form an organic work. A tank rumbles through the empty streets at no time in particular. Does it suggest the militaristic, secular power which has supplanted the absolute comfort of religion? Or perhaps it represents the phallic preoccupation of the woman who watches. Either way, its indiscriminate placement seems to reflect the work of a Waring Blender rather than an artist...
...special courses for teachers, doctors and journalists. Already start ed are competitions for the best atheist plays, films, paintings and photographs (one entry shows believers gloating over a collection plate). To counter act the emotional appeal of church feasts, the party will give greater emphasis to Russia's secular festivals -such as Cattle Breeder Day and Corn Grower Day, now celebrated joyously throughout the Ukraine...
Reluctant Rethink. Publication of the petition brought angry cries from Stockholm's "cultural radicals"-the powerful Establishment of secular-minded writers, editors and pedagogues who have been instrumental in, making Sweden a sociological laboratory. "The letter wants to introduce blind authoritarianism!" roared one newspaper, Dagens Nyheter. Authoress Kristina Ahlmark Michanek, 25, a free-love advocate whose latest tome, For Friendship's Sake, is a Swedish bestseller, declared indignantly: "It is a human right to go to bed with someone you like without being insulted by society." After all, she and others pointed out, prostitution is fast dying...
...Middle Ages when painter and stonemason worked side by side. During the Renaissance, they thought, art had bogged down in formulas, divorced from the community of man, and had become the terrain of academicians for whom Raphael was the exemplar. True sentiment, whether religious or secular, had vanished from art in the eyes of the Pre-Raphaelites, so they turned to a literary, historic past that supplied them with heartfelt admiration for purity and chivalry. Established themes from Shakespeare, the Bible and the Arthurian legends furnished ready references. In oils, the brotherhood tried to evoke the natural piety that...
...picking Staack for its Old Testament lecture series over 20 other candidates, the National Council chose a well-qualified scholar with some hard experience in secular life as well. Staack studied at the universities of Berlin and Hamburg, was ordained a minister of the Hitler-hating Confessing Church in 1939. As it did with many other rebellious Lutheran pastors, the Nazi government drafted Staack for army service in 1939; he was wounded five times in eastern-front combat and spent ten months in Russian and British prison camps. He came to the U.S. in 1949 as a graduate fellow...