Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lists of ships bringing immigrants to New York Harbor from 1890 through 1924. State and local archives are expanding and collecting information about the latest wave of immigrants. The Denver Public Library takes pride in its wealth of Hispanic genealogical material, and, says director James Jeffrey, "because of our Western History Collection, we have a lot of information about Asians who migrated to Hawaii and then to the mainland. But we are searching for other sources...
...group of well-meaning men met in the German town of Regensburg. Their topic was Martin Luther's ideas about justification by faith, rancor over which was fast splitting Western Christianity in two. Could justification, which all saw as the precondition of salvation, be influenced by human effort, or was it, as Luther had insisted, out of mortal hands? The Regensburg conferees, representing the Roman Catholic Church and the new Protestantism, produced language on the issue they thought might mend the rift...
...consequences included his excommunication by a furious church, much of whose power derived from "works"; and the formalization of additional grievances by Catholic and Protestant sides into anathemas, or catalogs of heresies. In the long run differences over justification can be seen as shaping the subsequent divided character of Western Christianity: Catholicism's continuing emphases on hierarchy, communalism and good works, and Protestantism's intense individualism...
...that there's more to this management business than he thought. Most of the matters he spouts off about in the course of the day are less important than what pundits spout off about: the direction of the efforts of a few dozen people rather than the direction of Western civilization. However, in this smaller realm, what he spouts actually affects the course of events--at least sometimes. Once he masters this management stuff, maybe it will happen more often...
...hadn't. He still believed in fighting fair and bloodless -- "I don't believe this kind of thing [the violent Western] is 'entertainment' no matter how you look at it" -- and he still sang the old country songs, releasing an album of old and new material in 1991 that featured country superstar Clint Black...