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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Silver Jubilee celebration for Gomes, titled "A Service of Thanks-giving For A Ministry," included a performance by the University Choir as well as a sermon by Lord St. John Fawsley, former leader of the British House of Commons...

Author: By Marian Hennessy-fiske, | Title: Gomes Is Honored For Years of Service | 10/16/1995 | See Source »

...service, at 4 p.m. Sunday, will culminate the "Silver Jubilee" celebration honoring Gomes, who is Plummer professor of Christian morals. The weekend-long celebration will incorporate a private dinner as well as the annual Noble Lecture series, which addresses aspects of Christian life...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Sunday Service Will Honor Gomes | 10/13/1995 | See Source »

...didn't paint only Tories. He did one memorable portrait of Paul Revere, the artisan-radical, rhyming the smooth, rather inexpressive mass of Revere's head with the silver teapot he is holding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY: RISING STAR | 10/9/1995 | See Source »

...family portraits is that of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mifflin, done in 1773. Mifflin was a rich young radical Whig of Quaker origins, who would become George Washington's aide-de-camp and, after the Revolution, Governor of Virginia. The portrait is very sober in color--browns, grays and silver, the only bright note being a red flower pinned to Sarah Mifflin's bodice. What is especially striking about it is the way it preserves Quaker ideas of matrimonial equality. Conventional 18th century portraits have the wife looking adoringly at the husband, who looks at you. Not here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY: RISING STAR | 10/9/1995 | See Source »

Enter the Democrats, carrying (they hope) a silver shield. The President says he can save the system with cuts of just $124 billion, though he too has yet to produce the numbers that get him there. House and Senate Democrats plan cuts of just $90 billion, the sum the Health Care Financing Administration, which oversees the system, says is needed to restore solvency. "We know that if the Republicans would only drop their trickle-down tax breaks, they simply wouldn't need to ravage Medicare," says House minority leader Dick Gephardt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IT'S MIDDLE-CLASS WARFARE | 10/2/1995 | See Source »

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