Word: historicism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Music Hall is not officially a historic monument, but it surely is something of a national shrine. As soon as it opened in 1932 as Rockefeller Center's "Showplace of the Nation," the theater became proof positive for millions of Americans that there was no bigness like show...
TV viewing may rise again, of course. The first two weeks of December, indeed, showed a small upward jiggle in the figures. But 1977 broke the historic pattern that every year saw more Americans watching TV more of the time. Many people, some even in TV, think that that interruption...
And so the Egyptian was led to his historic leap of imagination. It represented such a total change in Arab behavior that at first no one believed that Sadat meant what he said. In a speech on Nov. 9 to the Egyptian parliament, Sadat declared: "There is no time to...
(9 of 10) flew to Ismailia on Christmas Day, Menachem Begin was fortified by the Israeli Cabinet's unanimous approval of his peace plans ?approval gained in a 7½-hour closed session of the Cabinet. In his briefcase were the proposals that Begin had discussed with Jimmy Carter the...
If the process now under way succeeds?as is likely, even with occasional disappointments?Americans of every persuasion and party will have reason to be proud. We contributed a military balance which foreclosed a military solution. Our nation, because it was trusted by both sides, helped shape a negotiating process...