Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state) is committed to exerting a secular, unifying, equalitarian force. To accept the principle of general support of public and private schools equally out of public funds is to abandon the mission of the state...
...religiously pluralistic and semi-secular society cannot afford to imperil the unity of a people through a pluralistic school system, the heterogeneity of which would be aggravated by tax support of religious schools. We cannot afford this divisiveness in our education and in our national life...
Cavanagh was a latecomer to holy orders. Father Cavanagh had been head of a wealthy family, vice president of the Hat Corp. of America and its subsidiary, Cavanagh Hats, and he had suffered strong secular temptations almost until the time of his ordination. Only recently he was told that a position high in the Administration of his friend, President Jack Kennedy, was his for the asking. But the call to his late vocation was too strong. When a priest asked, "Can Kennedy get along without you?", he answered simply: "Yes." After that, the priest told him, "it's just...
Items: Private Demara (Tony Curtis) goes AWOL from the Army, fakes academic credentials, joins the Marines as an officer. When the FBI starts to check up, he jumps the fence, fakes more credentials, enters a Trappist monastery. When the Trappists find him too secular, to contemplate, they gently return him to the cruel, FBInfested world. After doing 18 months in a military prison, Demara borrows the warden's admirable prison record, gets a key job in a Texas pokey, makes a hit with staff and prisoners alike before he has to run. And so on till the hero joins...
...Persian word meaning ruler. It is a title selected by the present Swati ruling family after it unified the local tribes and won British recognition in 1926. The Wall's grandfather enjoyed the title of Akhoond, a Persian word meaning religious teacher. But in the 20th century secular titles have displaced religious ones; the Wali of Swat, no longer Akhoond, is the only Wali among the Pakistani princes...