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What is most impressive about The Great Depression, the new seven-hour documentary series from Eyes on the Prize creator Henry Hampton, is the predictable things it doesn't do. No obligatory, year-by-year chronicle of the economic disaster, replete with awful statistics; the few that are thrown in (the unemployment rate reached 25% in 1933) are awful enough. No windy political-science seminar on the strategies of Roosevelt's New Deal; the emphasis is not on Washington but on the fabric of life in the country, from breadlines and Hoovervilles to race riots and violent labor-management confrontations...
...years," Steven Bochco told an interviewer recently, "I've made a living swimming upstream." But for the past three or four of them, TV's brash experimenter has been thrashing mostly in dry creek beds. The creator of Hill Street Blues and L.A. Law tried a musical police show (Cop Rock), an "adult" cartoon (Capitol Critters) and a sexy law show (Civil Wars). Now, with his new ABC series, NYPD Blue, Bochco is back where he is most comfortable: chronicling the dark, turbulent world of big-city law enforcement. And fighting a raging current...
Modern monotheism, as Armstrong sees it, has had two main flaws. One is a tendency toward "belligerent righteousness," which has led to pogroms, inquisitions and other shameful manifestations of intolerance that defile the image of God as a benevolent creator. The other -- most apparent in Western Christianity -- is a tendency to define God in terms compatible with secular thinking. Thus the Jesuit theologian Leonard Lessius (1554-1623) argued that the existence of God could be demonstrated scientifically, like any other fact. Similarly, the 19th century German exponents of the Science of Judaism argued that their religion was a wholly rational...
...past few years have been an age of miracles. Unimaginable events, consummations devoutly wished for but never really expected, have succeeded one another as if the Creator had whistled up a new world. The Berlin Wall tumbles. The Soviet empire melts away. Nelson Mandela, free at last, begins to bring democracy to black South Africans. Now comes what must be considered one of the greatest miracles of all: the first acknowledgment by Israelis and Palestinians that they can share the land both call home...
...funding. Says Jack O'Brien, artistic director for San Diego's Old Globe Theater: "She has a realistic view of what we are up against, she is an eloquent advocate, she is a classy woman -- exactly what Capitol Hill should see." Says Illinois Democrat Sidney Yates, a congressional co-creator of the nea who chairs the subcommittee overseeing it: "She is well known, generally admired for her talents, bright and charming...