Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...possible, of course, to dismiss such demands as no more than an opening bargaining position, designed to seize the high ground at negotiations. But there are no negotiations under way now, and scant prospect of them in the short term. The memorandum is, it seems, a revolutionary document. "The people," it pledges, "are determined to continue the process of building people's power in our communities, factories and schools regardless of the cost. The possibilities of freedom and democracy are no longer dim and distant. Our victory is certain...
...icon itself, though valuable, is merely the box that contains the MacGuffin, an astonishing and unsuspected 19th century document. It seems that in 1867, when the world thought that Russia had sold a certain large piece of real estate to a young Western power for $7 million, what was really signed (and nicknamed Seward's folly) was only a 99-year lease. A crucial clause allows the Soviet Union to reclaim its property by paying a large sum in gold before the lease expires. Brezhnev, a stonehearted landlord, rubs his hands and plots eviction. Will Scott and the female bass...
...social significance of the report goes beyond its specific findings. It serves to document the evolving attitudes toward sexual morality that have gained acceptance during the Reagan era. In many ways it reflects society's ambivalence, mixing some moderate views about the rights of individuals with some visceral moralizing about pornography and promiscuity. Says the commission: "There are undoubtedly many causes for what used to be called the 'sexual revolution,' but it is absurd to suppose that depictions or descriptions of uncommitted sexuality were not among them." At times the report hesitantly departs from an examination of pornography and discusses...
...reckoning of Dumas Malone, the world's preeminent Jeffersonian biographer, "No other American document has been read so often or listened to by so many weary and perspiring audiences" as the Declaration of Independence. Certainly new records were set this Fourth as the words of Thomas Jefferson about "self-evident" truths and "unalienable rights" were beamed from the base of the Statue of Liberty around the globe. "Those well-worn phrases have never lost their potency and charm," insists Malone, though at the time they were first introduced, Jefferson was still miffed that his original text had been edited...
...received a historic stamp of approval from the rest of society. But if White were to study the history of Western rights he would discover that they were designed to protect precisely that area of conduct that is most frequently impugned. The Constitution is a worthless document if it enforces only that which does not need enforcing. A right to privacy that allows one to eat what one wants or to arrange one's furniture to one's liking seems a bit superfluous these days...