Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is off-topic debate. Conventional scholastic debating in the U S. has been on-topic, an achingly serious match that is less an extracurricular pastime than a kind of secular self-mortification. On-topic debaters all over the country argue a single consequential issue for a year. Off-topic debaters, who suddenly outnumber the on-topic traditionalists on most Northeast campuses, flit from one ephemeral subject to another every hour or so, allowing themselves only ten minutes to muster each case. Success at on-topic demands fetishistic research, note cards by the hundred gross and the rhetorical felicity...
...only, Marxist) and the recoil from the horrors of World War I. "The period of destruction is totally finished," announced a De Stijl maniesto in 1923. "A new period begins: that of construction." It is a younger version of he sentiment hauntingly expressed in Dryden's Secular Masque...
...himself killed just for doing his job. The second (Michele Placido) is a factory worker, a militant trade unionist whose apparently congenital bad temper is not improved by the fact that his marriage has just been sundered. The third (Vittorio Mezzogiorno) is a teacher in a reformatory, a secular saint whose politics consists mainly of setting a good, if humble and anonymous, example for a world that is heedless of his like...
Since she understands life in the secular realm, Mother Miriam is uneasy about allowing the forces of the outside world entry into the sanctum of her faith. Having consciously created for herself the stronghold of religion, she has pulled up the drawbridge and refuses adamantly to let it down again...
...recently published statement calls for an immediate halt to the manufacture of nuclear weapons and the eventual abolition of all nuclear arms. Similar to statements circulated by local secular groups such as the Coalition for a Nuclear Arms Freeze, it reads in part, "In the name of God, let us speak out now, let our silences once again make us accomplices to holocaust, this one threatening the very existence of mankind...