Word: secularize
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...that decision, Justice Hugo Black wrote, "Pupils compelled by law to go to school for secular education are released in part from their legal duty upon the condition that they attend religious classes...
...this metamorphosis, the gods presumably share Olympus with The World's 100 Great Paintings. To satisfy this lofty status, Malraux exalts the secular painter's function to a kind of priestly vocation. Sacred art deified its subject; profane art deifies the calling of the artist. "Cezanne," Malraux argues, "did not wish to represent apples, he wished to paint pictures...
...Kennedy dinner table, reading prodigiously on his own. Unlike many of his generation (Hubert Humphrey and Richard Nixon, for example), he was untouched by the Depression and unaware, except through reading and conversations, of the traumatic effect it had on the U.S. His Catholic father insisted on a secular education for him, and Jack went to Choate, Harvard and the London School of Economics. Extensive travel in Europe, a wartime hitch as skipper of a Navy FT boat (his brother, Joseph Kennedy Jr., a naval aviator, died in an air explosion over the English Coast), a brief turn...
They could not have imagined in what spirit their work would be commemorated in 1960, for to modern man Chartres Cathedral is a precious and perfect fossil of a pre-secular time when faith and the church held together the whole structure of society...
...this week, celebrating its fifth birthday, National Review has a circulation of 31,913, placing it among the leading secular journals of opinion. National Review achieved that status against such veteran competitors as the New Republic (circ. 35,931) and the Nation (circ. 24,015), whose viewpoints place them at the other end of the political spectrum...