Word: artifacts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This is a completely frivolous claim,"Silverglate said." Unless it's there forinstructional or celebratory purposes, it'sconsidered a cultural artifact or a piece...
...bout with prostate cancer-an old man's disease and a reminder that not even the superman who took Nazi fire would live forever. Meanwhile, there was the incessant yapping that he had to endure from combative young pups in his own party, who saw Dole as an artifact of that embarrassing era when Republicans had been willing to compromise principle in order to govern...
...sound can be heard in Mary Kate Brown's sixth- grade social studies classroom. The students are on a dig. Each group of three or four has been assigned a plot within an ancient Assyrian site. Their mission: to uncover what is at the site, to analyze carefully each artifact they find, then to formulate and defend a thesis about the nature of the place and the people who once lived there. Not even well-heeled Dalton can afford to take an entire class on an excavation in the Middle East, so these students are working on Archaeotype, a computer...
...about the same time that the three were being buried-give or take a few millenniums-a new sort of artifact begins to appear in the prehistorical record. Archaeologists working at sites all across Europe and well into Russia have found dozens of so-called Venus figurines: miniature sculptures of big-breasted, broad-hipped women. The statuettes, which may have been used in fertility rites or even religious ceremonies, suggest a worshipful attitude toward fertility and reproduction...
...first such disgrace. Four years ago, the National Museum of American Art produced an exhibition on America's westward expansion that mined every artifact for evidence of white racism and rapacity. Former Librarian of Congress Daniel Boorstin called the show "perverse, historically inaccurate, destructive." These exhibits are not accidents. They reflect the extent to which the forces of political correctness and historical revisionism, having captured the universities, have now moved out to dominate our museums and other institutions of national culture...