Word: historicized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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But shifting the crisis to the U.N. would give leverage to the Soviet Union, which can spoil any project the West pursues. At its own option, Russia can veto the Anglo-American proposal, thereby inviting a Turkish invasion of the island as the only means of rescuing Turkish Cypriots, or...
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has come to the crossing of a "historic threshold" which will involve "changes in intellectual outlook, in basic academic policies, and in our range of interests," M.I.T. president Julius A. Stratton said in his report for the year 1963. The report, now available in paperback...
To give themselves historic tutors, the brethren drew up a list of 57 "immortals" whose ideals resembled their own. Among them were Jesus Christ, Joan of Arc, Opera Composer Giovanni Bellini, and Coventry Patmore, a minor romantic poet. These models supplied them with literary and moral inspiration. The brotherhood even...
T.L.C. for Every Blade. From where the Pre-Raphaelites sat, honest-to-God artisanship seemed to have ceased with the end of the Middle Ages when painter and stonemason worked side by side. During the Renaissance, they thought, art had bogged down in formulas, divorced from the community of man...
Spanish is the exception: due to Spain's historic and literary importance rather than Latin America's present significance, the language is well-taught here. But history, political institutions, and sociology have been shamefully ignored. When Latin American problems are touched upon, it is usually in courses studying cross-cultural...