Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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$ Many antiwar protesters were sincerely trying to find answers to the profound moral questions Viet Nam raised about the legitimate uses of American power, and about the nature of the struggle in Indochina. The questions the war raised--in some ways, still raises--were endless. Were the Americans acting as...
A decade ago, the deteriorated, 100-year-old Bullfinch Courthouse building was to be leveled to make way for a parking lot. But former Senator Paul Isongas and Charles Sullivan of the Cambridge Historical Commission intervened to save the building by having it declared an historic landmark.
The community's concerns about preservation at Harvard go back many years. The Historical Commission, a municipal agency, was established over twenty years ago in part to administer an historic district that included, with Harvard's consent, a portion of the Old Yard. Over the years that district has been...
The immediate issue raised in the article is the proposed amendment of state law regulating historic district commissions to allow communities to protect the interiors of public buildings. As originally drafted, Harvard might have been affected, but the University made its concerns known last summer and the draft bill was...
A second issue raised in the article is that of Harvard's proposed demolition of 10 Mount Auburn Street. A study conducted by Harvard and the Commission is cited as evidence that building is "without historical significance." This is a contradiction of the facts. The study referred to was carried...