Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Call it the secular equivalent of PTL. Call it New Age pillow talk. Call it dream liberation. By any name, it is attracting all kinds of new enthusiasts -- artists and academics, ministers and scientists, trained therapists and just plain folks. It borrows techniques from psychotherapy, its vocabulary from sensitivity training and its cheery, take-hold-of-your-life spirit from gurus like Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. "Once dreams belonged exclusively to oracles or psychiatrists," says Ann Sayre Wiseman of Cambridge, Mass. "Now dreams belong to the dreamer...
...beards, side curls, long black coats and fur-rimmed hats, are the ultra-Orthodox militants, who want all Israelis to live according to the strict dictates of the halakhah, or religious law. On the other side, constituting the vast majority of the country's 4.3 million citizens, are the secular Jews, who believe Israel should be a modern democracy based on the principles of individual rights, tolerance and pluralism...
Ultra- Orthodox militants fight to impose religious law on a secular Israel. -- Three Kims vie for South Korea' s presidency...
...mention his ex-pupil in his book. But Pacheco was a dry, insipid painter, and Zurbaran's slightly awkward fierceness must have been disturbing to a man whose chief pride lay in being the father-in-law of Velasquez. Zurbaran would not master the sense of secular decorum, the discreet and far-reaching rhetorical power of Velasquez's much greater art. He did not try to, since he was mainly painting for monks, not connoisseurs. He and Velasquez studied together and were born within a year of each other, but their characters as artists were utterly different...
...unanimously overturning Hand's decision, the three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Appeals Court in Atlanta sidestepped the issue of whether secular humanism is a religion. Even assuming that it were a religion, wrote Appellate Judge Frank Johnson Jr., the plaintiffs had failed to show that the books promoted secular humanism. The information in the books, Johnson argued, was "essentially neutral in its religious content." Hand had also maintained that the history and social studies texts had been drained of virtually all mentions of the role of religion in society. That may be true, Johnson & responded...