Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even as Judge Pettine was ruling against Pawtucket, Federal Judge Jack Roberts permitted a Nativity scene in the Texas Capitol Rotunda, arguing that Christmas has emerged as a predominantly secular holiday. Moreover, in a similar lawsuit in Denver, U.S. District Judge David Winder ruled in favor of a creche, saying. "The message conveyed is not an endorsement by the City of Denver of the Christian faith but rather one of the general celebration of the holiday season...
...case of Pawtuckoi, Nativity scenes have been erected on public property for over 40 years. Such a firmly established history of secular and religious Christmas celebrations must at least mitigate potential church and state infringement. The Supreme Court may very well use its recent Marsh reasoning to affir the constitutionality of creche displays...
...secular 20th century, the religious impulse that in the past produced such musical masterworks as Bach's St. Matthew Passion and Beethoven's Missa Solemnis has been in short supply. Many contemporary composers, it seems, regard themselves as too sophisticated to write frankly sacred music, or are simply unmoved by the realm of doctrine or liturgy. At a time when nothing is too shocking to be put onstage, spirituality has replaced sexuality as the last taboo...
...ordaining women in 1972. As an Orthodox rabbinical student, I feel that it would have been more accurate to say that the Conservatives lag behind the Orthodox, who have preserved the true law of the Torah through the generations and have not yielded to the recent pressure of the secular feminists...
...Yentl's running Talmudic commentary on the genesis of her womanly desires. (That's why Patinkin doesn't sing.) The songs begin in a liturgical mode, heavy on recitative and minor chords. As Yentl enters the real world of passion and deceit, the melodies become more secular, and by midpoint, when Yentl's thoughts turn from intellectual to sexual love, the songs are swimming strongly in the American pop mainstream. It is the most romantic, coherent and sophisticated original movie score since Gigi a quarter-century ago; and its treacherous glissandi and searching wit find their...