Word: hutchinsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...School Prayers: Congress, the Courts and the Public, writes: "The Puritan settlement . . . of Massachusetts Bay . . . established under Governor Winthrop . . . in the seventeenth century sought to join the cross and the sword in founding a new Israel, following the Calvinist model." In 1639, the General Court of Massachusetts summoned Ann Hutchinson, charging that she allowed religiously unorthodox people to meet in her home and air their unseemly doctrines. Part of the transcript of the trial reads...
...Hutchinson-What law do they transgress...
...Hutchinson-What law have I broken...
...Hutchinson was banished from the colony. In England about the same time, the concept of the "social contract" began to spread via the ideas of Thomas Hobbs. Hobbs challenged the doctrine of the divine right of kings, declaring that legitimate government is formed by contracting men, and that temporal power is always superior to ecclesiastical power. (Although we remember that over four centuries earlier, the barons extorted the Magna Charta from King John, we do not as readily recall that before the year was out, John repudiated the document and was released from its observance by the Pope. John died...
Waves of Magenta. Last fall the two artists teamed up to visit the island of Tobago in the British West Indies. The resulting show at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art was composed of some surprisingly beautiful underwater photographs, and charted new ecological territory. Hutchinson strung out calabash, a local fruit, so that it floated eerily in the sea; he also transferred yellow leguminous flowers from nearby slopes to the ocean floor. Oppenheim, long intrigued by the "incredibly irregular" patterns of U.S. Highway 20 he had observed on maps, decided to transfer the configuration of the highway to water...