Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trappings and tradition, judges are a secular priesthood, oracles of the law, the embodiment of justice...
...service at Mem Church Sunday morning, specially prepared for freshmen and their parents, is nothing special. Peter Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and minister of Mem Church, puffs himself up and then bellows forth from the ornate wooden pulpit in one of the most secular sermons you'll ever hear. Your attention is still bound to wander, though. After all, this is church...
...branch of the divided Congress Party, holds only 77 seats in the 542-member Lok Sabha (lower house). Since no party wants a mid-term general election, the best bet at week's end was that Charan Singh, 76, the powerful leader of the new breakaway Janata (secular) Party, would be the next in line to form a government if Chavan did not succeed. If all else fails, the country could be forced to accept a weak and interim nonpartisan "national government...
When Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh came to power as Iran's Premier in 1951, Khomeini welcomed his anticolonialism and his opposition to the Shah, though he considered Mossadegh too secular. Khomeini had much more sympathy for the Ayatullah Abolqasem Kashani, who was then Mossadegh's partner. Kashani later split with him and may even have cooperated with the CIA-backed coup that toppled Mossadegh's government in August 1953 and enabled the Shah to return to his throne. Khomeini still identifies himself with Kashani, whose memory is reviled by Iranian nationalists because of his alleged betrayal of Mossadegh...
...television audience: "The remaining one or two years of my life I will devote to you to keep this movement alive." He will surely try to do so for throughout his life he has rigidly held to his commitments. The real question is whether Iran has not become too secular over the past 50 years to submit for long to the rule of a philosopher-king...