Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...yellow seemed a Joan of Arc, a religious figure incarnating her people's hopes as she led them to freedom; to others she was a Cinderella, with one glass slipper instead of Imelda's 3,000 pairs of shoes. Indeed, as startling as it may seem in the secular West, millions of devout Filipinos viewed Aquino as a sort of Blessed Mother, a redeemer who came to resolve the passion play that had begun with her husband's death...
...Cornell professors added their voices to the debate on the constitutionality of secular humanism and testified on behalf of fundamentalist parents in Alabama...
...professors joined the debate arguing that textbooks used by the Mobile, Ala. high school system are based on secular humanist principles and reject religious views...
...Secular humanism addresses a similar range of questions and plays a similar role as religion does," Strike said. "If moral issues are going to be discussed in school, you have to teach religious and secular views...
...Gare d'Orsay was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel, but its glories lasted only 40 years. By 1939 changes in railroad technology had downgraded it to a commuter station. In 1969 the last train left, and the place was abandoned: a rusting abode of cats and pigeons, whose damp silence was occasionally broken by film units; Orson Welles and Bernardo Bertolucci are among the directors who have sought evocative locations in its Piranesian gloom. Meanwhile developers covetously eyed it, dreaming of the slow-motion arc of the wrecker's ball. In 1971 the French government, under...