Word: america
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while America has rolled around in dance clubs and hip-hop has taken the political torch, folk music has somehow maintained a high energy, doubtless made possible by clubs like Passim. Siggins Schmidt explains that the club is "one of the best places an artist can cut his or her own teeth...can find an attentive audience. Its nurturing quality has proved itself decade after decade." And Club Passim does have an "alumni" list for the past few decades twice as impressive as Harvard's: Baez, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Muddy Waters, Taj Mahal, Shawn Colvin, Jackson Browne, Tracy Chapman...
...idea that we can separate culture fromreligion is I think a very Western idea," Hingsaid. "Our hope is to be recognized as having aunique contribution to the ethnic and culturalfabric of America...
...lecture like a Broadway show horrifies Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy Tu Wei-Ming, who teaches Moral Reasoning 40, "Confucian Humanism: Self-Cultivation and Moral Community." Wei-Ming says his opposing outlook on the practice of speaking to a large crowd comes from his Chinese upbringing. "In America, a lecture or speech often begins with a joke," he says. "In Asia, normally, if there is a big audience, you begin with an apology. Self-praise is in poor form...
Five years after President Clinton kicked off Americorps, he again challenged America's youth to get in involved in their communities yesterday at the University of Maryland in College Park...
...Candace*, a first-year premed, met her first love in an America Online chatroom during her senior year of high school. She and Mike chatted until everyone else logged off. "That was November," she remembers. "Mike and I started e-mailing every day until April-sometimes even two or three times a day. We finally met at a New Year's Eve party...