Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The thrust of the story seems to be that an irrational local body, the Cambridge Historical Commission, threatens to unreasonably inflict additional restrictions on Harvard's ability to dispose as it pleases with its property, historic or otherwise. Specifically, the officials quoted are concerned that the Commission may week to...
In her speech, Ferraro said she feels that she was generally treated fairly by the press during her historic campaign, although "certain newspapers published stories that were just not true."
It was clear from the start that the "Shamrock Summit" in Quebec City last week would be more show than substance: a piece of political theater staged not so much to solve international problems as to create an atmosphere conducive to seeking their solution. From the moment that President Reagan...
You may not have noticed. Doctrines, like submarines, tend to be launched with fanfare. The Monroe Doctrine was instantly recognized, on both sides of the Atlantic, as a historic declaration; the Truman Doctrine was unveiled in a dramatic address to a joint session of Congress; and when President Carter announced...
If regional powers prove unstable, and projected American power unreliable, what then? It is a precious irony that the answer to that question has been suggested to Americans by a band of fanatical Islamic warriors in Afghanistan. Unaware of their historic contribution to the theory of containment, they took on...