Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A century ago, missionaries had hardly begun their work. Spiritual power lay in rites performed to propitiate thousands of tribal gods. Tribal religion is still strong, but it is gradually losing ground. In the past 25 years Africa has thrown off colonial rule, sometimes replacing it with cruelly oppressive independent...
BY NOW, the signs that the United States is undergoing a vast social transition have become clear enough that only the willfully blind would expect things to go on pretty much as usual. Having more has not made Americans happier; faith in the facile god of technology has come tumbling...
The nagging problem, particularly in a sagging economy, is raising the necessary money. This was the principal topic of a three-day national symposium on the "American Movie Palace" held last week in Milwaukee, under the sponsorship of the School of Architecture and Urban Planning of the University of Wisconsin...
Africa's 51st independent state was born at a midnight ceremony that was almost like a love-in. Representatives of 96 nations, headed by Britain's Prince Charles, were among the 40,000 spectators* who jammed a football stadium in Salisbury (soon to be renamed Harare, after a...
Berlinguer has accepted high political risks at home to gain long-range influence among moderates on the Continent. Ever since the Communists' losses in last year's election, "historic compromise" of a governing alliance with established democratic parties has become elusive. For one thing, the Communists were shunted...