Word: columbian
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...year 1892 was an annus mirabilis in the U.S. The best symbol of that was Chicago, a city leveled by fire as recently as 1871 but subsequently bristling with the continent's first cluster of skyscrapers. For the 1893 World's Fair that became known as the World's Columbian Exposition, Daniel Burnham and a panel of America's greatest architects created a gleaming new Exposition city on Lake Michigan. Henry Adams, arriving in the private train car of a Pennsylvania Senator, was struck with a vision of a new America; he returned alone to spend two weeks studying...
...approach 1992, it promises to be an annus not so mirabilis for America -- a strange thing, since we are reaching the end of that American Century launched on the last major Columbian centenary. During the past hundred years, America has exercised a global authority not even Henry Adams could have foreseen. Yet we seem not in the celebrating mood. Chicago turned down the honor of mounting another Columbian Exposition. Our federal commission on the quincentennial floundered in scandal and ineptitude during the six years John Goudie presided over it. The Columbus now being described is a rather bedraggled figure...
...example what they'll do is send the U.S. Army down to get the cocaine growers in Columbia and simultaneously they'll raise the import tax on Columbian coffee. Simultaneously, it was like the schizophrenia of the decade...
Traditionally strong in Europe-American and Asian arts, the department is pushing to add Columbian, African-Oceanic, and eventually Afro-American art studies to the concentration...
...Eurocentric to believe the life of liberty is superior to the life of the beehive? That belief does not justify the cruelty of the conquest. But it does allow us to say that after 500 years the Columbian legacy has created a civilization that we ought not, in all humble piety and cultural relativism, declare to be no better or worse than that of the Incas. It turned out better...