Word: secularize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story granite headquarters of the Sun Life Assurance Co. in Montreal was once the largest office building in the British Empire, the secular cathedral of the English-speaking business elite in the world's second largest French-speaking city. Now it is a symbol of panic in the face of Quebec's threat to separate from the rest of Canada. Last week Sun Life's 1 million policy holders voted by a 5-to-1 ratio to transfer the headquarters to Toronto, Canada's bustling financial capital. Sun Life (assets: $5.5 billion) thus became the biggest...
...that American audiences comprehend only the diluted version of a pure art form. There are Indian musicians in the U.S., such as sitarist Ravi Shankar and sarodist Ali Akbar Khan, who play unadulterated classical Hindustani music. But they seem more concerned with commercial success than with upholding the ancient secular and philosophical traditions that are an integral part of Indian classical music...
...Church has been a far more important guardian of French Canadian cultural integrity than any government. But with Quebec's historic Quiet Revolution during the 1960s, which freed the state from the control of the Church and produced for the first time in the province's history a modern secular bureaucracy, the focus of nationalist sentiments finally shifted to the provincial government. In so doing, Quebeckers redefined the nationalist question in political and independentist terms...
...their lawyer aides, at interpreting the regulations promulgated by bureaucrat-lawyers, at helping influence the decisions made by politician-lawyers. The swashbuckling entrepreneur may not be a vanished species, but he is an endangered one; and in a complex, technological society he may not get very far without a secular priest, his lawyer, to minister to him. "I can't believe the change," says Atlanta Attorney Sidney O. Smith, recently retired from the federal bench. "Today a businessman cannot function without an attorney...
...rent apartments that his organization has built in the Paris area. Though the movement runs summer camps and ships supplies and cash to 32 countries, the main focus remains self-sustaining communes. Besides the 52 in France (membership 1,500), there are 100 abroad. While the communes are secular, there is a heavy emphasis on community. The communards get room, board and a stipend, but their main reward is in self-respect. A sign in the Orléans commune reads: "We will never agree to accept our subsistence on any basis other than our own work...