Word: secularize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jewish students from undergraduate and graduate organizations asked the University for the change because they believe it is unfair to force Jewish participants to choose between important religious and secular commitments, said Jonathan O. Strauss, a Law student who organized the protest...
...precisely because of its revolutionary policies (favoring agrarian reform, secular education collective bargaining and recovery of natural resources)--all of them opposed by the successive government in Washington, from Taft to Hoover--Mexico became a modern, contradictory self-knowing and self-questioning nation... A great statesman is a pragmatic idealist Franklin D. Roosevelt had the political imagination and the diplomatic will to respect Mexico when President Lazaro Cardenas, (in the culminating act of the Mexican Revolution,) expropriated the nation's oil resources...
...roaring survey of the pathology of moral relativism, which, the author contends, is responsible for most of the totalitarianism and terrorism of the past 60 years. Immoral acts were certainly not invented in the 20th century. But the worst modern tyrants committed their obscenities in the name of secular abstractions. Writes Johnson:"Hitler was totally irreligious and had no interest in honor or ethics. He believed in biological determinism, just as Lenin believed in historical determinism." Joseph Conrad foresaw the consequences of the unprincipled approach in Under Western Eyes when he wrote: "A violent revolution falls into the hands...
...Falwell and the New Right in anti-American rhetoric plays right into conservatives hands. No doubt Falwell will incorporate his Harvard visit into future sermons; "You should have seen the abuse that they heaped on God and our Flag when I was at Harvard, that citadel of sin and secular humanism." And it will work. Liberal harping on Falwell's alleged links to every ill from Hiroshima to Wounded Knee reinforces popular impressions of an arrogant, morally perverse intellectual elite sympathetic to America's enemies...
There is still a chance of floor reversals on the more controversial aspects of the letter, including its condemnation of any first use of nuclear weaponry and the decision not to adopt the word "freeze," a term popularized by a growing number of secular movements...