Word: historicized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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As Americans, in the historic traditions of this country, we avow Israel as a sovereign power in the family of nations, which sovereignty therefore must safeguard its own national interest on behalf of its citizens. America, similarly as a sovereign power, must also freely do likewise, unfettered in its foreign...
In 1946, Winston Churchill journeyed to the small Missouri town of Fulton to accept an honorary degree from little-known Westminster College. His acceptance speech made Fulton a historic site. "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic," Churchill said, "an iron curtain has descended across the Continent...
The Nabokovs entertained sparingly and cared only to see a few close friends. They were too busy. Besides, science (lepidopterology) was once again coming to the aid of Vladimir's art. Its handmaiden was technology in the form of a 1952 Buick, bought mainly to search for specimens in the...
The N.I.C.B. figures that U.S. production, which has increased an average 3% annually for the whole 20th century but rose to 4.5% during the '60s, will continue to grow by 4.5% a year during the '70s. One reason will be an unusually large rise in the labor force...
But it is terribly difficult to combine sex and art without suffering. Ever since Judge Woolsey's historic decision on Ulysses, the moneymakers have been trying to imbue pornography with "redeeming social value." Unfortunately, this usually makes for bad pornography and bad art.