Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Marx and Engels tried to apply their egalitarian ideal to secular goals and to much larger communities-entire countries and ultimately the whole world. Two German expatriates living in England, they were outraged by the abuses of the Industrial Revolution, which established new heights of wealth and new depths of poverty. The manufacturers and investors claimed wealth as their right, since they built the factories and paid the workers' salaries. Marx and Engels argued that the workers were being deprived of the very thing that gave them worth in society-the fruits of their labor. For capitalists to profit...
...impressed by the hubbub. "When this is all over," he reflected, "it won't have changed anyone's mind." Gray surely has it right. The federal trial that began last week in Little Rock, Ark., will lead to a legal ruling on whether "creation science" (secular evidence for, among other things, the supernatural origin of the universe) may be required in public schools where the theory of evolution is taught. But after all the lawyers and experts have finished, after the press has gone, the old Bible Belt battle between Darwin and the Good Book will go right...
...civil violence, war with Iraq, economic ruin, international isolation. Yet, however untidy their methods, the country's ruling clergymen seemed united in their dedication to establish an Islamic republic. Now, apparently, that solidarity is vanishing, if indeed it ever existed in the first place. Having ruthlessly eliminated their secular opponents, the mullahs have lately turned on each other, arguing over everything from the sacred (Islamic law) to the profane (the spoils of political power...
Both schools are proud of their traditions and uncommonly true to them. They have never gone coed or been closely affiliated with a women's college. Today, only three other secular, four-year liberal arts colleges can make the same claims: Wabash College (enrollment: 780) in Crawfordsville, Ind., and two state-supported military schools, the Citadel in Charleston, S.C., and Virginia Military Institute in Lexington...
...find a lot of guys on the team are pretty religious. I don't think most people at Harvard are as secular as they appear--for the most part there aren't that many channels to show their religiosity. But if you could ever see how many football players are at church on Sunday, starting with the five-o'clock Mass on Saturday...