Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cambridge churches in the late 20th century have often not worried about the relative height of their buildings but about the depth and range of their social concern. Reaching out has been as much a motive as reaching up. They have been able to move horizontally--if not vertically--into the Cambridge community in a number of ways that are less religious but more social, educational and political. Within a mile's radius of the Swedenborg Chapel, we can find a history of such outreach that more than compensates for any physical restrictions. Consider the following three examples...
...didn't Nixon burn the tapes?" One of the great political puzzles of the late 20th century has been joined by another: "Why didn't Clinton settle with Paula Jones before Monica Lewinsky hit the headlines?" It was, after all, the search for "other women" who could support Jones' story that brought Monica to light in the first place. And yet, even as the Lewinsky saga has strengthened Jones' public posture, it has not helped her prospects in court. Sources tell TIME that the Jones team has put out quiet feelers to see whether Clinton might want to talk again...
Indeed, Harvard has itself endorsed this assessment of late 20th-century thought. In an interview with Perspective, the campus liberal monthly, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III links the current political climate on campus to "Reagan-era pragmatism." Today's students, according to Epps, eschew protest in favor of service: "They do have a con-science, they want to help those less fortunate, but their methods will be more pragmatic and not filled with risk-taking...
...take the tour) in the Middle Ages, and beside it stands the Giralda, a Moorish tower that is even older. Its flying buttresses arch against the blue sky like a tangible dream of medieval times, the proverbial Spanish castle, its grey stone begrimed with the sweat of 20th century traffic...
...21st century might prove to be a worsehell than the 20th century with all its wars andthe Holocaust," Keyes said...