Word: 17th
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Americans are willing to dish out fifty dollars to buy a superior academic book--even when it deals with a burning contemporary issue, takes a peak into the Royal family (o.k., so 17th century gossip is old news) and explores mysteries...
What we all consider modern times, according to Greenfeld, is a result of nationalism, an ideology which emerged in the 17th century and eventually organized the world into a jigsaw puzzle of nation-states. For Greenfeld, it is not industrialism, capitalism or communism that necessarily made the world as it is, but nationalism which preceeded them and set the stage for their emergence...
...writing, against church orders, that the earth revolves around the sun. The point of the papal statement was not to concede the obvious fact that Galileo was right about the solar system. Rather, the Pope wanted to restore and honor Galileo's standing as a good Christian. In the 17th century, said the Pope, theologians failed to distinguish between belief in the Bible and interpretation of it. Galileo contended that the Scriptures cannot err but are often misunderstood. This insight, said John Paul, made the scientist a wiser theologian than his Vatican accusers. More than a millennium before Galileo...
...comes to either social change or the needs of weekly journalism. He notes, "They have been at it for 2,000 years and know the art of prevailing through patience." Moody found the Vatican an austere world, but, he adds, "every so often I was struck by the odd 17th century original oil in a hallway...
...paddle, a belt and a two-by-four -- that Roy's stepfather gave him, his younger sister and brother, and his mother. Teachers reported their suspicions of abuse; relatives tried to intervene. But each time, police officers and social workers left the children in the home. On his 17th birthday, Roy shot and killed his stepfather on their front porch as he came home from work...