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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about its social context--although there are times when silence itself can be read as a significant act of sublimation. There's very little visual art, for instance, that directly deals with slavery. Or, to take another example, here is a country founded on religious impulses--Puritanism in the Northeast, Spanish Catholic missions in the Southwest--which nevertheless has hardly produced any major doctrinally religious work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN VISIONS | 5/21/1997 | See Source »

...ways the most pious and 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEEKING THE SPIRIT | 5/21/1997 | See Source »

Harvard again takes the field today against UMass, which is the top-ranked team in the northeast. The Minutemen drubbed the Crimson, 11-4, in the Beanpot, so Harvard is looking for revenge...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, | Title: Baseball Clinches Red Rolfe Title | 5/7/1997 | See Source »

Colgate was the New York Division champion but had not played any of the other seven teams at Easterns (which also draws from the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Divisions...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: W. Waterpolo Ruins Colgate In First Round of Easterns | 4/26/1997 | See Source »

Under current plans, the Naito Building will link the north end of the Converse Laboratory and the northeast end of the Mallinckrodt Laboratory, according to Knowles...

Author: By Andrew S. Chang, | Title: Plans Are Underway For 2 New Facilities | 4/25/1997 | See Source »

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