Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arthur Miller characters. But by the '40s he had found his own voice, a Shavian mix of irony and poignance. Since then the supple prose has been, like Cheever's, dominated by sexual themes and by the attempt to lend common experiences and ordinary people a secular grace...
...University's Judaica collection in Widener Library will add to its present store of 150,000 volumes, making it the largest non-secular Judaica collection the country, Gerard Weinstock '39, Chairman of the Program for the Center, said yesterday...
...health of a potential candidate will surely become a much more serious consideration. Professor Enrique Miret Magdalena of Madrid's University Institute of Theology has suggested that papal candidates should have a complete medical checkup, "just as you would do with someone considered for an important job in secular life." John Paul's fate may change attitudes toward the ages of papabili as well. Hitherto there has been an age "window" for candidates, ranging from the early 60s to the mid-70s, mainly because Cardinals feared having a Pope in office for more than ten or 15 years. "Maybe...
...turned to their Islamic religious leaders?the mullahs?who, as it happens, have deep grievances of their own. For centuries, the daily lives of the Persians were guided by conservative mullahs of the Shi'ite sect, whose influence embraced not only the country's spiritual life but also its secular culture and economic institutions...
...pornography are all viewed as typical manifestations of modernism. The Shah's widespread curtailment of civil liberties, freedom of the press and political assembly are looked upon as only further evidence of his determination to deprive the Shi'ites of their power and to transform the nation into a secular state...