Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...text has some virtues, some manically funny apergus, such as the glimpse of reverent Yalies hand-washing the baby's diapers to pay for the pair of Mies Barcelona chairs, those comfortless icons of secular progress. But its flaw, apart from Wolfe's shaky grasp of architectural history, is that he looks with his ears. Architects tend to write manifestos when they are not being asked to build. Given the choice between what architects wrote about architecture, and what they actually built, Wolfe believes the words every time. This leads him into some strange fluffs, like his mistaken...
Sadat had alleged in a weekend address following the arrests that an elaborate conspiracy was under way aimed at undermining his authority. Sadat fears that his secular enemies are hoping to bring him down not by a coup (he firmly controls the army) or at the polls (where he seems invincible) but by fomenting trouble between the Muslim and Christian communities in the hope of creating national chaos. In his speech, Sadat accused both religious and political enemies of "conniving together" to exaggerate several recent incidents of unrest, including a domestic quarrel between a Muslim family and a Christian family...
...Shenouda as the leader of Egypt's 6 million Coptic Christians, who form 14% of the population. Sadat accused Shenouda of failing to assist his government in quelling sectarian strife. Among the detainees were eight Coptic bishops, 13 priests and 125 alleged lay activists, as well as 55 secular dissidents and intellectuals...
...last week. Devout young Muslims also favor trim beards, which some men were hastily shaving to escape detection in the roundup of religious dissidents. By adopting these modes of traditional attire, young Egyptians are manifesting a new Islamic fervor that is symptomatic of the opposition to Sadat's secular, pro-Western regime...
Many Egyptian officials believe that the sort of militant Islam now enjoying a renaissance is not sufficiently attractive to the majority of Egyptians to pose a danger to Sadat's rule. But observers caution that should the religious militants ever link up with secular dissidents, they could prove to be a potent challenge indeed to the President...