Word: voiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite these impressive figures, government polls indicate that a scant 30% of the population today claim to have any real personal religious beliefs. Many scholars trace the reasons for this void to the social shocks of World War II, which left a widespread legacy of nihilism. As large numbers of people flowed from the countryside into urban centers during the 1950s, they were separated from ties with the religions in their home areas. Getting a good education and blazing a successful career became national preoccupations, supplanting traditional faiths...
...Korean parents waxed Confucian whenever I cried on the phone to them. imploring me to look "within" for the answer. But for some reason whether it was because I had spent too many years watching Johnny Carson, or because of my pigpen in Weld, I saw only a void when I looked within Ralph Waldo Emerson, had he shown up when I really needed him, would have set me straight by saying. "Do not craze yourself with thinking. Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well mixed people who can enjoy what they find...
...March the Education Department refused to make a public comment telling schools how to handle the Solomon Amendment. Colleges were left unable to answer student questions on the matter. Eventually, and grudgingly. Education Department officials indicated in June in the Federal Register that the law was void but did not ask colleges to tell their students...
...chance of extraterrestrial discovery is, to be sure, infinitesimally small. As it hurtles through the interstellar void, Pioneer will not approach another star for 10,000 earth years. Even then, it will hardly be a close encounter: there will be a gulf of 3.8 light-years (some 23 trillion miles) between Pioneer and Barnard's star, a small, cool, red celestial object that does not seem to have life-supporting planets. Still, as scientists at NASA's Ames Research Center note, Pioneer should survive indefinitely in the vacuum of interstellar space. The machine may even outlast the solar...
...title was Passion Play. The music of the Dies Irae boomingly punctuates some scenes, and the drama has a neoreligious subtext. James and Eleanor proclaim themselves atheists, but they are wistfully haunted by the death of God. While ranting about his right to "a flash of happiness before the void," James curses Christianity and Jesus Christ for depaganizing mankind: "The Christians took over the language of sexual emotion for their own purposes -passion, love, adoration, ecstasy . . . those words are now more meaningless than the so-called dirty words...