Word: conquests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...West--produced and directed by a Burns protege, Stephen Ives, but overseen by Burns as executive producer--is both more restrained and more resonant: a sweeping, thoughtful, often moving look at America's conquest of the West, from the early European explorers to the dawn of the 20th century. PBS is airing the series on eight nights over the next two weeks, smack in the middle of the networks' well-hyped fall premieres. (Little, Brown has also published a handsome companion book.) It's a mission that might seem as foolhardy as Custer's, but The West has much...
...year-old defense attorney whose new client is a gifted con man. He's a tall, awkward fellow who seems too clumsy to be slick, but his specialty is romancing rich, lonely, middle-aged women, and he is very good at it. Alas, however, his latest conquest has been found dead, with the marks of large hands on her throat...
...replacement for the frontier would be: state universities. They could take on the mystical duties for democracy that free land had once performed--with, of course, an academic twist. "The test tube and the microscope are needed, rather than the ax and rifle, in this new ideal of conquest," he wrote...
Another Hoopes winner, Heather L. Clark '96, explored the Irish identity of James Joyce in "Conquest is a Lie: Joyce, Irish Identity and the Politics of the Postcolonial in 'Araby...
Prizes were also awarded to Daniel T. Chrzanowski '96 for "Fertility in Western Kenya: An Engendered Explanation and an Application of Human Rights"; Heather L. Clark '96 for "Conquest is a Lie: Joyce, Irish Identity, and the Politics of the Post-colonial in Araby"; Jill A. Corcoran '96 for "Beyond the Bell Curve and 'g': Rethinking Ability and Its Correlates"; Hugh G. Eakin '96 for "Religious Politics and Civic Rhetoric in the Renaissance: The Brancacci Chapel Frescoes and Their Patronage"; Steven A. Engel '96 for "The Legacy of American Hegemony: A Theory of Institutional Change"; and Eliezer M. Finegold...