Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The scene is central to the iconography of the cold war: one December day in 1948 on his Westminster, Md., farm, Whittaker Chambers retrieved from a hollowed-out pumpkin a microfilm that implicated former State Department Official Alger Hiss in the passing of Government secrets to the Soviets. Last week...
"It is a historic moment for deaf people around the world." So said a jubilant Irving King Jordan last week, in words and sign language, after being named president of Gallaudet University, the nation's only institution of higher learning for the hearing impaired. Jordan, 44, who is deaf, was...
Gustavo Tablada of the Socialist Party called the move "a historic step...a serious and responsible compromise."
Yet the "upscaling" of Harvard Square has its downside as well. Gladys Gifford, an attorney and historic preservation activist in Cambridge, said only the best-financed are staying in business.
In 1986 young black voters reversed a historic pattern and turned out in greater numbers than young whites. When Jackson went to visit Alabama's Senator Howell Heflin on the Bork nomination, Heflin said he did not want to do anything to discourage the "new voters," and thus opposed Bork...