Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lifestyle of East Harlem's Emmaus House, a prototype for countless so-called "underground churches." When Francine began her project, Emmaus House was a hotbed of zealous ecumaniacs bent on building a new kind of parish with home rule and spontaneous liturgies. The community has become considerably more secular since then, and is evolving into a center for nonviolence...
Open Concubinage. Where secular divorce is permitted, the easiest solution for many disgruntled Catholics is simply civil divorce. But in Italy, Spain and ten other Catholic countries, church influence on the state has made annulment the only way out of a marriage, and hardship stories are commonplace. For some, despite the fact that the church will often waive actual trial costs, the process remains too expensive because they must still pay for such important incidentals as medical examinations. One hapless Italian has been legally married to a hermaphrodite since 1936 because he cannot pay the fees -roughly...
Even in a secular age, there are many artists who can be called religious. Bergman, the minister's alienated son, alone can be considered holy. His fatalism has an undertow of sublimity. His films are chapters in a coherent-if desperate -philosophy: Worship God or deny him; rage if you will, love if you can. But feel. For in the universal paradox, what God cannot, man must...
Last week Let It Be came out again on an Apple LP, along with eleven other Beatles renditions. Where did those brass choirs come from? And those secular maracas? They came courtesy of Phil Spector, yesteryear's teen tycoon of rock, whose paeans to post-pubescent passion (Be My Baby, You've Lost that Lovin' Feelin') earned him an estimated $5,000,000 before he retired in 1966 at age 25. Last February Spector was brought in by Beatles Manager Allen Klein to give the album a little commercial passion. And did he ever...
...aspects of a secular, almost pagan holiday-a sense of propitiating an earth increasingly incapable of forgiving what man has inflicted upon it. Much of Earth Day was festive and faddish; yet it touched the American imagination with a memento mori, a vision primitive as trilobites and novel as the idea of a windless, uninhabited earth orbiting...