Word: secularize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...antiquated sectarian political system whereby Lebanese Christians automatically held the balance of power in the government. Although Jumblatt was a Socialist, and a Moscow favorite who won the Lenin Peace Prize in 1972, he owned vast tracts of land and opposed Communism. Revered by the Druzes as their secular leader, he studied Buddhism, Hinduism and Christian theology and regarded himself as a mystic. Shortly before his death, in fact, Jumblatt had been planning a trip to a monastery in the Himalayas for "spiritual exercises." He had last gone there -for the same purpose-before beginning the final fruitless struggle...
...executive committee, was planning to try to convince his deeply divided followers that it is necessary to 1) participate in a Geneva Conference, 2) come to terms with Jordan's King Hussein, and 3) moderate, if not abandon the P.L.O.'s avowed aim of establishing a "secular democratic" state in all of Israel rather than merely on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip...
...derived, in our culture, from the Bible. Frye's main theoretical interest in recent years has been the classification of the various narrative movements and symbolic elements which characterize particular literary modes. His Norton lectures, for example, dealt with the structure of romance, which he referred to as "the secular scripture...
Teilhard's works have become "the property of a cabal of admirers, quite outside the mainstream of modern thought," assert the Lukases. Opinions vary on whether that will change. The secular scientists whom Teilhard had hoped to attract tend to ignore his work. British Historian Hugh Trevor-Roper recently dismissed him as one of the "great charlatans" of modern letters. His influence among Protestant thinkers is minimal...
Died. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, 72, fifth President of India and staunch supporter of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi; of a heart attack; in New Delhi. A lifelong champion of democracy and secular rule in India, the Moslem-born, Cambridge-educated Ahmed joined his country's independence movement in 1931, and was jailed twice by the British. His last official act was to sign an order for new parliamentary elections...