Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The origins of the movement extend back to Mendelssohn's historic revival of J.S. Bach in 1829. Even so, throughout the last century Bach was known primarily to the most sophisticated musicians, and only a handful of Mozart's myriad works were regularly performed. With composers like Schumann...
These and similar scenes at eight other historic sites this summer have marked the progress of an invaluable federal program called the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Administered by the National Park Service, with technical assistance from the American Institute of Architects (A.I.A...
By calling attention to our heritage and by helping to train a cadre of experts, HABS, along with a companion project called the Historic American Engineering Record, begun in 1969, has been instrumental in changing preservation from the concern of the proverbial little old ladies in tennis shoes to a...
This is going smooth as silk." Thus, with only days to go, NASA Spokesman Jim Kukowski ebulliently described the final launch preparations for next week's flight of the Challenger space shuttle. Lift-off for the eighth mission of NASA'S Space Transportation System, known as STS-8...
(3 of 11) black and white turnout fell to a historic low of 7%, and in nine states, including Illinois, blacks were reported voting in a greater proportion than whites. And the number of black state legislators increased by 35, to 355, the largest jump ever. Nevertheless, the total of...