Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...future might turn into a more doubt-ridden view of progress, after the fratricidal horrors of the Civil War. To Henry Adams, writing in the early 1900s, the assassination seemed to have thrown Americans into a state of mind without connection to the past; it was a secular analogy to the death...
...times have changed. Married...with Children will air its farewell episode this week, after 11 seasons. The 700 Club still has a spot on the Family Channel, Robertson's cable network, but it has been overshadowed by secular fare, such as reruns of Columbo and Rescue 911. Most startling of all, Rupert Murdoch and Pat Robertson are talking about becoming partners. Negotiations are well along--only "technical matters" remain to be resolved, according to one source--for Murdoch to buy a stake in Robertson's International Family Entertainment, parent company of the Family Channel. Although the principals won't comment...
...Body (Knopf; 395 pages; $26.95), Yale's distinguished surgeon and bioethicist presents a kind of prequel: an anatomy of human life, vividly illustrated by case histories from his wide operating-room experience. The result is a book--part basic textbook, part memoir and meditation--that is wholly secular yet sublimely uplifting. Although not religious in a formal sense, Nuland is overwhelmed with awe at how the human body works. As he writes, "We are, of necessity, miracles with flaws...
...book (Knopf; 395 pages; $26.95) by Yale?s distinguished surgeon and bioethicist Sherwin B. Nuland presents an anatomy of human life, vividly illustrated by case histories from his wide operating-room experience. The result is a book -- part basic textbook, part memoir and meditation -- that is wholly secular yet sublimely uplifting. Although not a religious man in any formal sense, Nuland is overwhelmed with awe at how the human body works. As he writes, ?We are, of necessity, miracles with flaws.? The basic miracle, as Nuland describes it, is that the body?s different systems -- cardiovascular, reproductive...
...Assistant Secretary of State whose own book on assimilation, Faith or Fear (Free Press; 256 pages; $25), is due in June. Abrams too detects a distortion in American Jewish self-image: he thinks the elite, eager to fit in, traded religious identity for the less off-putting "faith" of secular liberalism, and the price is outmarriage. "Jewishness without Judaism," he insists, "cannot be transmitted from generation to generation...