Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nominate Yasser Arafat for Man of the Year because he elucidated the only possible solution for the Middle East: one secular democratic state of Palestine where Jews, Moslems and Christians can live together peacefully...
...quashed. But Arab lobbying won in the end. The resolution passed easily, 72-35, with 32 abstentions. Two other resolutions directed against Israel were approved by much wider margins. One creates a 20-member committee to try to set up in what is now Israel the sort of "democratic secular state" the Palestine Liberation Organization has demanded. The other mandates a seat for the P.L.O. at any Geneva talks on the Middle East, a condition that Israel adamantly rejects...
...swept along by the plot. The buildings were meant to unfold. This feeling for ritual movement, the promenade, would almost disappear from architecture in the 20th century; and yet it was functional. Gamier was one of the last to recognize that fantasy and ceremonial had valid roles in secular architecture. People did not just go to the opera to see performance; they went to enjoy a ritual called "going to the opera." In the Paris Opera, Gamier enshrined that ritual. "How large should the foyer be?" he enquired in a book, Le Theatre, written four years before the Opera opened...
...fascist party dedicated to violence and armed revolution, and vowed to build "a totalitarian instrument" that would "reinforce the hierarchic principle, exalt love of country, practice social justice and foster the well-being of the middle and working classes." Franco integrated the Falange into his Movimiento Nacional, made a secular saint of the Falange's executed leader, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, and used it to control rival political movements as well as the Falangists themselves. The Movimiento became Spain's sole legal political party and a personal instrument for carrying out Franco's policies. Franco...
...Christianity, in common with a large body of secular thought, also holds that the patient, the family and their doctors are not morally required to use every conceivable means to sustain a damaged life. In Catholicism, which has the most developed literature on such questions, one notable exponent of this view was the brilliant 17th century Spanish Cardinal Juan de Lugo, who said "ordinary" efforts are required, but "extraordinary" methods...