Word: secularize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...broadcast journalism has a secular saint, a Puritan forebear, a drafter of the Constitution, he is beyond challenge Edward R. Murrow, a man whose prestige endures more than a quarter of a century after he ceased to be a major force in reporting and analyzing the news. Murrow made his reputation covering war and challenging demagoguery. He burnished it by losing battles to commercialism and belatedly denouncing his betrayers. He died young: he was 57 when he succumbed to the lung cancer brought on by a four-pack-a-day cigarette habit, a vice he could not kick even while...
Dolores Melendez, for her part, says she is confident that her son's rethinking of Christianity will not lead him away from the church. "I can't forsee him turning his back on Christianity," she says. But she warns, "I see a little bit of secular humanism creeping in." Does she condemn that? "No," she says. "I'm not his judge, I'm his mother...
...burghers and nobles demanded art to match. The curators of this show have not stinted on what one might call the oo-ah side--the gold- and silverwork, the enamels and tiny carvings, the intricate chalices and aquamaniles that expressed the patrician sumptuousness of the city's religious and secular life. There is, for instance, one of the most extravagant objects in the history of European metalwork, the Schlusselfelder Ship, made for a local burgher in 1503 by, some historians suppose, Albrecht Durer's father. It is a huge drinking cup in the form of an armed three-masted carrack...
...leaders are hard up for new recruits these days; the divorce rate appears even to have slipped a little. Though church attendance rates have not increased noticeably, some Baby Boomers speak of a "new spiritualism" and grope, often privately and quietly, to regain the faith they lost in the secular '60s and '70s. In the '80s the Baby Boomers are not exactly generating a new Baby Boom of their own--the total fertility rate remains a low 1.8 births per woman. But because of the sheer number of Boomers who have finally decided to procreate, parks are full of strollers...
Last year the parliament passed legislation requiring virtually all social and political organizations to adopt a secular state ideology known as Pancasila, a set of five principles calling for belief in one God, justice, national unity, democracy and humanitarianism. The law was designed to muffle nearly all dissent in the country and was of a piece with the regime's press censorship and powerful military. It sought to curb the growth of Islamic fundamentalism. After an antigovernment riot inspired by Muslim protesters in 1984 and a subsequent rash of political bombings, a number of prominent Suharto opponents, including a former...