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...framed houses of the New England Puritans are the same houses that were built in Old England, in East Anglia, in the 17th century, because that was what the Puritans knew how to build. The Fraktur paintings and the massive decorated schranks, or family wardrobes, made by the Pennsylvania Dutch were German decorative arts, transplanted. When a Virginia sotweed planter in 1750 wanted a portrait of his successful self, he chose an artist who could do a passable version of what was fashionable in England and hung it in the saloon of a house whose Anglo-Palladian design had been...
...morally obsessed of nations outside the Islamic world. Recent polls suggest that 96% of Americans believe in a personal God and that 78% of them think their consciousness will survive death and go, after judgment, to heaven or hell. Its earliest colonists in the Northeast--Pilgrims, Puritans, Quakers, "Pennsylvania Dutch"--were all seeking to flee European persecution and corruption (as they saw it) and trying to set up various kinds of religious Utopias. The main tool of Catholic Spain's colonization in the Southwest was the Franciscan mission. And yet the paradoxical fact is that the U.S. has never produced...
...Dutch native I was interested to read your article on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in the Netherlands [WORLD, March 17]. Here in Dallas I've been accused of coming from a society that likes to kill sick people. However, we in the Netherlands assist the death only of those who are living in constant pain and suffering. JAN BURGERS Dallas
That's what euthanasia means in Greek, good death. For the Netherlands, it's also good policy. Other countries will have to decide for themselves, but surely the Dutch style of open debate about a painful and difficult topic is the best...
...told us about the guards, hid us in the woods, fetched us after dark, fed us and lodged us, dressed us up to look like respectable people and accompanied us the next morning to a little mountain railway station. We headed for Zurich. Once there, we registered with the Dutch consul and so could not be sent back...