Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real possibilities for social change. May be I have to believe that for a person like me to go on with what I'm doing, or may be I've seen enough to give credulity to that kind of statement...But I really distrust seers and secular experts, and whatever has been done, has not been enough, not by any means...
...Immigrant Absorption Nathan Peled, who came to Israel from Russia 39 years ago, "come with high potential. But before they realize it, they must come to terms with a new kind of society that has its rich and poor, primitive and highly cultured, socialist and capitalist, religious and secular." Most of the immigrants, for instance, are totally baffled by such routine fiscal necessities as checking accounts and bank loans. Accustomed to scarcity, they are suspicious of well-stocked supermarkets. Most of the Russians are obviously familiar with shortwave broadcasts by Israel's government radio; they complain that "Kol [meaning...
...financial plight of New York's parochial schools, which teach some 700,000 students whom the public school system could ill afford to handle, is desperate. So desperate that Governor Nelson Rockefeller promised to disburse $33 million to non-public schools for "secular educational services" (including the teaching of English, math and history). Last week, a three-judge federal court, following Supreme Court decisions on similar programs in three other states, declared Rockefeller's plan unconstitutional, an "excessive entanglement between government and religion...
...praise Frank Perry or Paul Williams as film masters at a moment's notice, acquired positions at Time and Newsweek held by tougher fellows long ago--James Agee and John O'Hara. Or, why doesn't Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. deem film important enough to bring some of his secular history to it to make for a relevant panache? And why did Joseph Morgenstern, one of the best of the lot, one of the few with human concerns broader than Panavision, drop films to write social commentary. Perhaps I know the answer to that one. Perhaps he wanted to preserve...
...Piet Hanema, a wealthier, more intelligent Angstrom type striving to build foundations against death in the sexually gymnastic but spiritually hollow "Tarbox, Mass." That's where politics made a hasty entrance into Updike's America; Tarbox couples coupled during Asian wars and American assassinations, forced to form their own secular groups partly by their total disengagement from those encroaching headlines. The major critical complaint was lodged against the novel's bulk; its themes and symbolic framework, were not filled out with sufficient flesh-and-blood drama...