Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life and our readiness to receive answers and to act according to them. These questions and answers are ordinarily expressed in systems of religious thought and life. But they are not exclusively bound to such expression. The vertical dimension, the dimension of depths, is present in the secular as well as in the religious realm. It is present, too, in our own one-dimensional culture, though obscured and suppressed by the forces of the horizontal and their restless drives. It is my hope for the future that these questions and answers will be uncovered and liberated far more...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Forum by Jacob Katz. Professor Katz, now visiting from the Hebrew University, is a world-famous expert on Judaism in the Nineteenth Century; hence it is a fine thing to publish him even though his command of English prose is not all it might be. His article, "Secular Interpretation of Judaism in the Nineteenth Century," will not electrify his professional colleagues, since he clearly is aiming it at a general audience, but it is a pleasantly simple account of the various intellectual movements that affected the growth of Zionism and Jews' sense of their own community a century...
There is a kind of privacy even in the mass. "You find it driving to work, alongside all those other people, but alone with your thoughts," says California's Sociologist Edward McDonagh. "The car has become a secular sanctuary for the individual, his shrine to the self, his mobile Walden Pond...
...place that he wished "were less competitive and much less tense." He quoted Thomas Aquinas' teaching that the end of action is contemplation. He said that the University has not completely escaped "the impingement of commercial and industrial values on what should be a contemplative life essentially critical of secular values...
...Current have devoted their entire spring issue to the problem they have, in effect, been discussing in every issue: "the experience of the Catholic student at Harvard." Their ten articles explore two implicit themes: the social and intellectual position of Catholic students as a minority group in a secular university, and the more general position of all Catholics in an age of uneasy agnosticism...