Word: historicization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AMERICANS, enthralled by the personality of their chief executive and the power of his office, tend to talk about their political history in terms of presidential administrations. Yet last week, when it was learned that Earl Warren, the 14th Chief Justice of the United States, would soon retire from the...
DUBROVNIK (July 10-Aug. 25). The historic Adriatic seaport offers an array of opera, dance and music that includes the Moscow Philharmonic, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, London's Amadeus Quartet and Zubin Mehta conducting the Belgrade Philharmonic.
Seeking to head off a recurrence of full-scale civil disorders, Charles de Gaulle cracked down hard. After conferring with his ministers, he banned eleven student revolutionary groups, barred street demonstrations for the duration of the campaign, and ordered the expulsion of troublemaking foreigners; 154 have so far been deported...
Five weeks ago, rebellious students seized the Sorbonne, France's historic university center of learning and culture since medieval times, and detonated the uprising of students and workers across France. The rebels have held the university ever since, creating a unique, communal society within the sanctuary of the Sorbonne...
In their quest for power, West Germany's Social Democrats have depended for nearly two decades on the guidance of Herbert Wehner, a brusque, brilliant tactician whose devotion to the Socialist cause is equaled only by his towering rage at any dissent within his party. Second in the hierarchy...