Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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No president in recent years could possibly have been king. John F. Kennedy might have made a decent prince, but Jimmy Carter on his peanut farm? Richard Nixon whining about Checkers on national TV? Gerald Ford? Imagine how foolish they would look with ermine robes, crowns, and sceptres--not to...
The 1980s mark a historic turning point for Roman Catholicism. Beneath all of the gloss and spectacle of the papacy, beyond the wealth, power and influence of the Holy See, a profound struggle is taking shape, one that is of crucial importance to the church's 810 million members--and...
Today's Greater Boston Championships could be historic for the Harvard men's indoor track team. For the first time in almost a decade, the Crimson could walk away from the competition as the undisputed champion.
Endgame is a minimalist play, calling for a Spartan amount of furnishings and a bare set. It is clearly meant to be an a historic play; nothing about the characters or the staging should imply a particular time or place. Atleast, this is how Beckett wrote it, conceived it, and...
Combining these uncertainties we can sketch two crude scenarios for the U.S. for the next four years. One might be called "an outward looking, competitive U.S." while the next four years. One might be called "an outward In the former, a historic budget compromise brings the deficit to about one...