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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gonzo: Gonzo was always an perservering muppet. No matter how many times he got blasted out of a canon, he still bounced back. Gonzo is the patron saint of QRR failures and Crimson compers...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Lessons From Sesame Street | 5/21/1990 | See Source »

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern is a play for the cogniscenti, and those who have not read Hamlet and Beckett and a slew of other playwrights might not appreciate the humor and good performances in this production. But those who enjoy spoofs on the canon will love this bizarre amalgamation that has returned, successfully, to Leverett House...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Live On in Leverett House | 4/27/1990 | See Source »

Political pressure has already brought about sweeping change in public school textbooks over the past couple of decades and has begun to affect the core humanities curriculum at such elite universities as Stanford. At stake at the college level is whether the traditional "canon" of Greek, Latin and West European humanities study should be expanded to reflect the cultures of Africa, Asia and other parts of the world. Many books treasured as classics by prior generations are now seen as tools of cultural imperialism. In the extreme form, this thinking rises to a value-deprived neutralism that views all cultures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond The Melting Pot | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

Nonetheless, the official Roman Ritual still includes a rite of exorcism. The code of canon law includes rules for exorcism, specifying that only a bishop may authorize one. Rome still holds fast to belief in Satan: in a 1986 sermon, Pope John Paul insisted upon the reality of a personal devil and recognized the possibility of demonic possession. The secret draft for a forthcoming Catechism for the Universal Church, now being examined by the world's bishops, continues the traditional teachings about Satan and fallen angels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: No Sympathy for the Devil | 3/19/1990 | See Source »

Four years after Moore's death in 1951, Lewis fell in love with someone young enough to be his daughter. Chicago-born Joy Davidman Gresham, a Jewish convert to Roman Catholicism, had two sons from a failing marriage. When she and Lewis wed -- privately, since Anglican canon law barred his marriage to a divorcee -- he was 58; Joy was 39 and already suffering from the cancer that would kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love's Labor | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

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