Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...visages of the third act. An American, the sculptor Richard Serra, says blithely, "Abraham Lincoln High School, 'High on the hilltop midst sand and sea' -- that's about as far as I trace Abraham." Coming as it does after two acts of religious zealotry, the comment expresses a contemporary, secular kind of cultural truth -- Who cares who Abraham was? In the end that point of view may be just as valid as the Middle Eastern ones, and a lot more peaceful...
...Western secular humanism points to adulthood as the period in which the individual's youthful idealism is defeated by the disillusioning forces of recognized sexual roles and intellectual practicality. In the 90s, the question of sexuality includes not just gender but sexual orientation and the use of sex as an instrument in many unrelated spheres of activity. Angela Delichatsios' Madeleine explores this reality, in a manner very reminiscent of the cataclysmic sexual role-playing and use of illusion in Edward Albee plays, especially in his Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf...
Roland A. Van Leiw, of the Secular Humanists of Merrimack Valley, who organized the event in conjunction with the Humanist Chaplaincy of Harvard University said he invited Baird "because he is the only spokesperson I know of with a coherent and consistent message concerning freedom which of course includes reproductive rights...
...with its new album, Depeche Mode has found faith. At its core, this is still the same band that was behind such antireligious hits as Personal Jesus and Blasphemous Rumours, but on Songs of Faith and Devotion, the group uses sacred symbols to add emotional weight to its typically secular songcraft, dropping words like heaven, soul and Babylon and such phrases as golden gates, kingdom comes and angels sing. Religious terms used to drive home a nonreligious point? Clearly this English alternative rock band is seeking a new covenant with its fans...
Could Egypt be going the way of Iran? That question will be on the mind of both Bill Clinton and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak when the two men meet in Washington this week. Though fundamentalists are at odds with all the secular Arab governments of North Africa, the Middle East and the Persian Gulf, Mubarak is a special target. His country has not only made a separate peace with the archenemy, Israel, but has also joined the Western alliance in the Gulf War and continues to work closely with...