Word: secularize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dividing the whole field of secular learning into the three fields of accumulative knowledge, philosophy, and literature and the fine arts, President Conant went on to distinguish between "invention" and "scientific discovery" as separate phases of the area of "accumulative knowledge. Science," he emphasized, "emerges from the other progressive activities of man to the extent that new concepts arise from experiments and observations, and the new concepts in turn lead to further experiments and observations...
...Secular Shadow. U.S. Protestantism, says Editor Morrison, may examine its yearly membership gains and complacently conclude that all is well. This would be about as intelligent as an assumption that a man is healthy merely because he is not losing weight...
...Protestantism-it is a threat to America itself: [It] is a self-enclosed system of power, resting upon the broad base of the submission of its people, whose submission it is able to exploit for the gaining of yet more power in the political and cultural life of the secular community. . . . Its triumph in America would radically transform our culture and change the character of our democratic institutions...
...from delight to delight." The biggest and best delight in the show was also the oldest: a 14th Century illustration of the Apocalypse-measuring 35 by 250 feet-from the Angers cathedral. The newest and most surprising were from Jean Lurçat's Aubusson atelier. Despite their secular emphasis on roosters, nudes and flaming suns, they, too, looked somehow medieval (see cuts...
...Jazz (Bunk Johnson and his New Orleans Band; Victor, 8 sides). Old Bunk's trumpet leads the choir in When the Saints Go Marching In and A Closer Walk with Thee, then turns secular in Franklin Street Blues and I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate. Clarinetist George Lewis and Trombonist James Robinson step high on the parade tunes. Performance: excellent...