Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sacred works, 13 are by such Palestrina, Victoria, Byrd, Bach and Handel; while six are from such contemporaries as Milhaud and Vaughan Williams. Of the 36 secular works, three each come from the 16th and 17th centuries, seven each from the 18th, 19th and 20th, plus nine modern arrangements of older songs...
Most of the concerts will devote their first half to sacred music and the second half to secular music. Sacred music only, however, comprises the programs for Florence, Verona, Southwark Cathedral and Westminister Abbey...
Every bishop and vicar knew what he meant. There is much latent sentiment in secular Britain against the state-linked church (it showed recently during the Princess Margaret-Captain Townsend controversy). If Parliament turned down the churchmen's divorce clause, then the bishops and vicars would have to choose either to defy Parliament or to back down, thus inviting the disestablishmentarians to go to work. Disestablishment would mean loss of state protection, possibly some lands, and the privilege of crowning England's monarchs...
Next day he took it back. The bishop's statement "was intended as an exhortation, not as a command," said a spokesman. But the secular press saw its chance, and pounced: "How smug," exploded the Daily Mirror, "and how stupid." Editorialized the Daily Sketch: "Once again the Church of England has spoken with two voices." And the Evening Standard: "The new Bishop of London has made an unfortunate start in his high and important office." The" established Church of England quietly buttoned up its gaiters and waited for things to quiet down...
...38th honorary degree. As a rule the President accepts at least two honorary degrees each year, carefully choosing the schools to achieve a cross section of geography, size, and religious or secular orientation...