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Topics of pieces in the first journal ranged from Harvard's construction and operation of the seventeenth-century Indian College to the Boston Chinatown raid...
Polarizations formed on either side of the grand duality of England vs. America, Old World vs. New. Thus on either side of the Atlantic, political, cultural and religious opposites were, in each of the three wars, slugging it out: "From the seventeenth century, the English-speaking peoples on both continents defined themselves by wars that upheld, at least for a while, a guiding political culture of a Low Church, Calvinistic Protestantism, commercially adept, militantly expansionist, and highly convinced, in Old World, New World, or both, that it represented a chosen people and a manifest destiny. In the full, three-century...
...exhibition is divided into four somewhat arbitrary categories which are still the subject of scholarly debate. The Seventeenth Century, Transition, the Eighteenth Century, and Neoclassicism are further divided into periods with names like Lyricism, French Classicism and Rococo...
...Utah this week, a 16-year-old girl escaped from her family farm after her father beat her for running away, for the second time, from her forced polygamous marriage to his brother, her uncle. The unidentified girl, who celebrated her seventeenth birthday in protective custody at an undisclosed location, told authorities she was her uncle's fifteenth wife. Her uncle and father were arrested and are facing all sorts of charges...
Some minor details: the "music" for the movie really does not deserve the name, and makes no pretense at all towards sounding like anything that anyone in the seventeenth century would have heard--it seems as if all the instruments were replaced by a synthesizer. The costumes are more convincing; though not overwhelmingly beautiful, there are no noticeable anachronisms...