Word: secularizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kristin M. Galanek '95, the newly elected committee co-chair, defended the tree as a holiday symbol. "From my point of view, the Hanukkah party had the explicit purpose of being a religious party," she said. "The tree was kind of secular. There is no religious element about...
...alienating for students who don't have a Christian background," Daniel H. Nexon '95 said. "We should view Harvard as a secular institution...
...same holiday shopping sales, the same special offers, attend the same Christmas parties and sing the same carols. And everyone--Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and Christian alike--celebrates together, viewing the festival in a somewhat secular light...
First, pick a holiday message you'd like to convey. Merry Christmas? Happy Hannukah? Or maybe just a secular Seasons Greetings...
...prospect of cloning. No more nasty surprises like sickle cell or Down syndrome-just batch after batch of high-grade and, genetically speaking, immortal offspring! But representatives of the human species are responding as if someone had proposed adding Satanism to the grade-school curriculum. Suddenly, perfectly secular folks are throwing around words like sanctity and dredging up medieval-era arguments against the hubris of science. No one has proposed burning him at the stake, but the poor fellow who induced a human embryo to double itself has virtually recanted -- proclaiming his reverence for human life in a voice, this...