Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many of those gathered in the historic building had helped to make history during the past 30 years: Senator Eugene McCarthy, Lady Bird Johnson, General William Westmoreland, Judge John Sirica, Buckminster Fuller, Julia Child, Van Cliburn, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. They were talking with a dozen artists who had been associated...
Britain has no written constitution?simply a collection of precedents embodied in acts of Parliament and historic understandings that have grown out of political crises and conflicts over the centuries. In the accepted framework of British politics, Heath had no choice but to accept his sovereign's verdict. The Queen...
Despite Nazi genocide, the struggle to survive in the Middle East and the absorption of millions of refugees, Israel's balance sheet after only 30 years is very positive. No doubt it is not the balance sheet we expected or wanted. If Israel's first President, Professor Chaim...
The book covers other matters, of course, and according to some of the few people who have read it, often at tedious length. Memoirs starts with the sentence, "I was born in the house my father built," and devotes nearly a third of its pages to Nixon's years...
The historic accumulation of fiction and fantasy has always confounded the analytic powers. Consider James Agee. The presence of a handful of tenant farmers moved him to an epic work of genius; yet, in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, it is easier to locate Agee than the not quite...