Word: historicized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This passage, which evokes both Shakespeare's Cleopatra and the historic Queen Elizabeth (who were both barge owners), seemed to Pound as "too tum-te-tum at a stretch." Eliot fortunately could not help writing poetic poetry. His verse, as it was written, tum-te-tums today in many...
But nine weeks after the tanks rolled into Prague, the controversy within the Communist world over the Soviet action shows almost no sign of diminishing. Of the world's 89 Communist parties, less than a fourth have sided with the So viet Union-and most of those that have...
"No producer, regardless of size, has been able to control the market," said the report. "Automobiles are bought and sold on the basis of customer choice in a setting of intense rivalry. This rivalry has produced a steady improvement in quality, safety and value and a greater variety of choices...
Damage to Privilege. According to Steel, the court backed down from its historic 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision when it ruled a year later that the states did not have to desegregate their schools immediately, but only "with all deliberate speed." In effect, said Steel, the court was...
Historic Trio. By and large, such questions troubled busy Americans only during pessimistic moments of crisis and political unrest. Near the turn of the century, however, the search for a usable past that would somehow square the original American ideal with exploitive American practices began to be the constant concern...