Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reception room for her guests; only gradually did it become a retreat (boudoir is derived from the French bonder, to sulk). Privacy became valued as individualism and the ego became valued. In earlier times, retreating into solitude was a religious act; now privacy became a devotion in the new secular religion of the self...
Some seek physical solutions-better-planned cities, apartment buildings with thicker walls, atrium houses that turn their backs on the street, telephones that truly turn off. Others seek psychological solutions: psychiatric therapy to make up for the loss of privacy, or the secular equivalent of religious retreats...
...woman who was Catholic, and when his father precautiously transferred him to the University of Glasgow, Boswell ran off to London, intending to be converted and take holy orders. Before taking orders, he took a girl named Sally Forrester, whose charms persuaded him of his "duty to enjoy" a secular life. He enjoyed it so much that even a case of "that distemper with which Venus plagues her votaries"-the first of a dozen or more attacks of gonorrhea he suffered in his 20s-failed to revive his religious convictions. When a Scottish nobleman introduced him to the Duke...
...cooperation among Jews. Except for a small group of militant Orthodox fundamentalists, all three branches participate in the Synagogue Council of America, which coordinates the assignment of federal prison chaplains and certain Jewish activities in civic affairs. Recently the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, representing 21 secular and religious agencies, voted to transform itself into a stronger and more centralized body, which hopes to enable Jewry to speak "with one voice" on all "major Jewish issues of our time...
...members, by ardently siding with Mississippi's Negro poor, tended to set them against other segments of society rather than reconcile the factions. Laudably, the Ministry helped set up preschool training centers under Project Head Start, badgered reluctant state officials to accept federal anti-poverty funds, worked with secular civil rights organizations to register Negro voters. Ministry leaders also actively organized a bitter and so far unsuccessful strike against cotton plantations, and encouraged the dramatic squatters' invasion of the Greenville Air Force Base by local Negroes last winter...