Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very clear notion of what it was about, except at the very beginning. In those days, everyone knew that the business of any college was to rear Puritan divines. This purposeful age vanished, however with the Unitarian Coup, and ever since Harvard has been adrift on a secular sea, stirred vaguely, as great corporate bodies are, by forgotten impression and dim, ancient impulses from its past, like parietal regulations...
Nehru contends that Tara Singh's demands are really religious, not linguistic, that a separate religious state within the union would not be in accordance with India's secular constitution. Moreover, if Panditji capitulated to Masterji's demands, he would antagonize the Punjab's nationalistic Hindus. Nehru also fears that if he were to give in, minority groups all over India would start to go on hunger strikes on every conceivable issue. Already the fasting fad has spread among the country's zealous crackpots: in Rajasthan, a peasant staged a two-week fast to protest...
...being considered a non-Jew in Israel can be awkward, especially if one falls in love. Mixed marriages are illegal-no rabbi may marry a Jew to a non-Jew-and civil marriage (and divorce) does not exist. The result is a storm of resentment between Israel's secular and religious Jews, which is currently whistling around the ears of silver-thatched Acting Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Nissim...
...Cesti," wrote the Neapolitan landscape painter Salvator Rosa, "is the glory and splendor of the secular scene...
...mocking Negro anger toward the whites. Where in Genet's The Balcony men act out their dreams, in The Blacks they act out their nightmares as well. Often unbridled, sacrilegious, obscene, The Blacks is echoing too at times, with travestied ceremonies, Pirandellian illusion and reality, a sense of secular Black Masses and King Lear mock trials. A savage Negro assault that is also a Genet indictment, in places The Blacks indicts the savagery as well...