Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The 1984 election will turn out to be historic [NATION, Sept. 3]. President Reagan has regained respect for this country by not allowing the Soviets to intimidate him. At the same time, his economic policies have not raised taxes and have allowed American business to expand.
In 1981, after a pair of Navy F-14s blasted two Libyan jets over the Gulf of Sidra, the jolt of home-team pride was strong, and the taking of tiny Grenada last year prompted more V-G-day celebrating than seemed strictly appropriate. Jesse Jackson's presidential candidacy...
Beneath the hoopla and posturing lurk many serious and even critical issues, from arms control to tax reform. The newest is also one of the nation's oldest: the role religion should play in political and public affairs. Both candidates made major pronouncements last week. Mondale attacked Reagan for...
When the afternoon bells rang on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the clamorous trading in financial futures used to come to an abrupt stop. Until last Thursday, traders were forced to wait until the next day to carry out deals triggered by late-breaking economic developments. But in...
The case against interviews with writers is historic: they exploit personalities, expose their subjects in verbal undress, without their styles hitched up, and they traffic in anecdote and gossip. This is also the case in favor of such interviews. And why not? How else would a faithful reader learn- as...