Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Reuben T. Mondejar, an officer of the club, said the organization would pursue civil charges against Chik, but it might prove too costly to prosecute him criminally...
Congress later negated that ruling when they amended the Indian Civil Rights Act. Under the revised act, a tribe's criminal jurisdiction covers all Native Americans...
...Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo-America (Basic Books; 707 pages; $32.50) Kevin Phillips fetches back 3 1/2 centuries for a complex, ingeniously woven explanation. His thesis, mostly persuasive, is that the English-speaking world prospered as it has because in three internecine conflicts (the English Civil Wars of the 17th century, the 18th century's American Revolution, and the 19th century's American Civil War) it hammered itself into new political, cultural and religious shapes that gave the Anglo cousinhood both energy and stability: "Broadly, the result was to uphold political liberties, commercial progress, technological inventiveness...
Through three wars and almost four centuries, the English-speaking peoples organized, across the alienating-yet-binding space of the Atlantic, a dynamic of entanglement and change that both invigorated and, by stages, freed them. Phillips writes, "Each conflict--and all three of them combined revolution and civil war--rescripted society, economics, and government on both sides of the ocean." Thus, for example, the American Civil War resolved--the hard way--the problem of slavery. Put the three wars together, as Phillips does, and you see that they "constitute the central staircase of modern English-speaking history, not least...
Take one fictional Ozzie-and-Harriet-like Irish-Catholic couple and their three teenagers. Put them through the crucible of the sexual and drug revolutions, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, women's lib, Watts and Woodstock. Then toss in newsreel footage of every conceivable major event that occurred during this tumultuous time. Now squeeze all this into a four-hour mini-series and try to tell a credible story. Ludicrous? Yet NBC pretty well manages the feat. Enacted by a solid cast and enhanced by a smartly used greatest-hits soundtrack, The '60s is clear-eyed, compassionate and surprisingly affecting...