Word: secularism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Compositions for this prize must be written for four or more voices, with or without solo parts and accompaniment; the words may be in any language, and either sacred or secular. The manner and methods of Mozart or Cherubini in their Masses is, however, recommended by Mr. Boott in its bequest...
...religious document known as the Thanksgiving Proclamation is highly offensive to many loyal American citizens who do not believe in God. To recommend that these Atheists gather in places of worship and give thanks to a being whose existence they deny is not in keeping with the secular spirit of our godless Constitution...
...Church a dean is not a bishop's pawn, but deans and bishops go together. Where there is a bishop, there is a cathedral (in most cases); where a cathedral is, there is a dean. Since deans and bishops must see each other constantly to do ghostly and secular business together, it is well that they should dwell together in charity. Not always is this the case. Last winter Manhattan's Bishop William Thomas Manning, high-church authoritarian, fell out with Dean Howard Chandler Robbins, broad-church independent (TIME, Jan. 14). Said Dean Robbins: "There is a fundamental...
...Herzl, founder of political Zionism. It was Dr. Herzl who, while reporting the famed Dreyfus affair (1894) for the Vienna Neue Freie Presse, found his attention focused on antiSemitism, his Jewish consciousness aroused.* Two years later, aged 36, he published The Jewish State, a speedily famed pamphlet which, with secular, economic emphasis, advocated Jewish national reunion. Followed congresses, interviews with world rulers, potent propagandizing...
Bishop Cannon was quick to answer "the statements which have appeared in today's secular newspapers." He wanted it understood, in the first place, that he had been buying securities "on the instalment plan," not gambling. Then he explained that during the last presidential campaign Senator Carter Glass (Va.) telegraphed to him: "For some unexplained reason affidavits have today been placed in my hands relating to alleged stock gambling on margin by you with the late bucketshop firm of Kable & Co. . . . Would you have me promptly deny for you participation in any such transaction? . . ." The Bishop, who said that...